{"id":522,"date":"2016-03-25T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/?p=522"},"modified":"2016-03-25T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T03:27:08","slug":"modican-vistas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/sicily\/modican-vistas\/","title":{"rendered":"Modican Vistas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_3696.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[522]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_3696.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nModica offered one of our first tastes of baroque architecture. It also provided an example of &#8220;unique&#8221; civil engineering; the age of the city showed in the sheer number of stairs and ramps. Newer cities, such as those in America, would opt to either change\/flatten the landscape, or else would just be located elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_3697.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[522]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_3697.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a>&nbsp;This panorama shows all of Modica. It sparked debate on the population size of the city, and on how to differentiate a city from its suburbs. Fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Angus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Modica offered one of our first tastes of baroque architecture. It also provided an example of &#8220;unique&#8221; civil engineering; the age of the city showed in the sheer number of stairs and ramps. Newer cities, such as those in America, would opt to either change\/flatten the landscape, or else would just be located elsewhere. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sicily","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}