{"id":3530,"date":"2011-10-13T10:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T08:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2012-04-22T04:55:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T02:55:59","slug":"florence-is-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=3530","title":{"rendered":"Florence is a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One night after class, a few of us walked through the narrow flagstone streets to the <em>Piazza della Signoria<\/em> where one of the David statues stands. It&#8217;s a clich\u00e9d sentiment but totally true: I felt like I was walking through a picture book or a movie set. It was so overwhelmingly beautiful and romantic and perfect the city seemed unreal. I imagined the buildings as giant painted flats and that I might find myself behind the scene, able to kick out their wooden supports and see them fall with a whoosh and a puff of dust. But nope, they&#8217;re made of impossible stone.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/image13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3536\" title=\"Florence From The Arno\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/image13-620x386.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/image13-620x386.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/image13-440x274.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/image13.jpg 1910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night after class, a few of us walked through the narrow flagstone streets to the Piazza della Signoria where one of the David statues stands. It&#8217;s a clich\u00e9d sentiment but totally true: I felt like I was walking through a picture book or a movie set. It was so overwhelmingly beautiful and romantic and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,168],"tags":[370,173,429],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-journal","category-travel","tag-firenze","tag-italy","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}