{"id":947,"date":"2011-11-15T21:09:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T02:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=947"},"modified":"2013-09-15T18:58:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T23:58:50","slug":"72099-day-12-bus-bus-more-bus-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"7\/20\/99 Day 12 &#8220;Bus, bus, &#038; more Bus Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[We continue to look back at my travel diary that I kept during the summer of 1999 when I traveled through Europe for two weeks. In Italy, I learned how to say, &#8220;No nuts,&#8221; in Italian. &#8212; Present-day Carrie]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey, noticed I slipped a day. Word to the wise: don&#8217;t eat Italian food, Especially when you&#8217;re allergic to it. I was sick all yesterday. Haven&#8217;t been sick like that in a long long time. Not very fun.<\/p>\n<p>But this morning we saw Michelangelo&#8217;s David, which was really neat. There&#8217;s so much emotion in his face. &#038; now we&#8217;re on the bus heading for Rome. Yesterday I saw Michelangelo&#8217;s grave, &#038; Dante&#8217;s, &#038; the guy that wrote the Barber of Seville. But now I&#8217;m tired &#038; I&#8217;ll probably take a nap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6047\/6343396185_4cd6b74429_b.jpg\" title=\"Il Duomo\" target=\"_blank\">Il Duomo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6047\/6343396185_4095d6a829_o.jpg\" title=\"Il Duomo, bigger version\" target=\"_blank\">(bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6037\/6344144464_56996523eb_b.jpg\" title=\"More Il Duomo\" target=\"_blank\">More Il Duomo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6037\/6344144464_9c026268ce_o.jpg\" title=\"More Il Duomo, bigger version\" target=\"_blank\">(bigger)<\/a>. All I had to do &#8212; <em>all I had to do<\/em> &#8212; was walk around to the front of the baptistry there, just a few more steps, and I would have seen Ghiberti&#8217;s bronze doors. But did I?  Noooooo. So much I missed in Florence. So much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6235\/6344144938_63b33ecc7d_b.jpg\" title=\"Where we were at\" target=\"_blank\">Where we were at<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6235\/6344144938_3f03f89bf5_o.jpg\" title=\"Where we were at, bigger version\" target=\"_blank\">(bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6032\/6344145372_44a8967514_b.jpg\" title=\"Horrible freakin' picture\" target=\"_blank\">Horrible freakin&#8217; picture <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6032\/6344145372_1b80b3dfc6_o.jpg\" title=\"Horrible freakin' picture, bigger version\" target=\"_blank\">(bigger)<\/a>, only included for the sake of truthiness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6234\/6344145940_beff8ff98f_b.jpg\" title=\"Working towards David\" target=\"_blank\">Working towards David<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6234\/6344145940_dd710fae10_o.jpg\" title=\"Working towards David, bigger version\" target=\"_blank\">(bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[We continue to look back at my travel diary that I kept during the summer of 1999 when I traveled through Europe for two weeks. In Italy, I learned how to say, &#8220;No nuts,&#8221; in Italian. &#8212; Present-day Carrie] Hey, noticed I slipped a day. Word to the wise: don&#8217;t eat Italian food, Especially when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,21,3,5,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}