{"id":695,"date":"2016-04-08T18:42:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T22:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/?p=695"},"modified":"2016-04-08T18:42:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T22:42:13","slug":"day-5-montalbano-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/sicily\/day-5-montalbano-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 &#8211; Montalbano Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-696\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/04\/sicilia5-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"sicilia5\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/04\/sicilia5-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/04\/sicilia5-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/04\/sicilia5-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No one could be more enthused to run into the bronze and whiskered character of Montalbano in the coastal town of Porto Empedocle than our very own Professors Boyd and Gavioli. This well-known character canvasses various cases through the\u00a0famous &#8220;gialli&#8221; (detective novels) of Andrea Camilleri. Port Empedocle, the short visit to start our fifth full day, is the coastal town that inspired much of the setting of Montalbano&#8217;s fictional home town of Vig\u00e0ta. While we were unable to spot the elusive Camilleri at his coffee shop, we enjoyed the chance to walk down the streets of the colorful and odd\u00a0town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one could be more enthused to run into the bronze and whiskered character of Montalbano in the coastal town of Porto Empedocle than our very own Professors Boyd and Gavioli. This well-known character canvasses various cases through the\u00a0famous &#8220;gialli&#8221; (detective novels) of Andrea Camilleri. Port Empedocle, the short visit to start our fifth full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"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":{"0":"post-695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicily","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}