{"id":1783,"date":"2014-06-15T18:41:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2014-06-15T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T17:44:23","slug":"acropolis-agora-and-a-fond-farewell-to-leanne-and-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"Acropolis, Agora and a fond farewell to Leanne and Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAcross the distance, the Acropolis museum cradled within its protective walls its legendary treasures, lulling them to a peaceful sleep under the eerie light from the heavens. Yet, through the large window, the five Caryatids stood alert on their strong platform. The ageless maidens with the long braided hair down their backs remained awake even at this hour gazing across to the Acropolis, full of nostalgia for their sacred home. Inside their marble chests, they nurtured as always, precious hope for the return of their long lost sister.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>
\u00a0<\/span>Effrosyni Moschoudi<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>The Necklace of Goddess Athena<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

We have been crossing items off our bucket list. \u00a0We were so happy to have company for Lepanto, Zante, the Corinth Canal, Meteora and Delphi. \u00a0We made the Corinth Canal a day early, so we were able to have a splendid day at the Acropolis. We thought we would share the photos.<\/p>\n

\"Climbing<\/a>
Climbing up to the Acropolis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"James,<\/a>
James, Cameron and Leanne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Theatre<\/a>
Theatre of Dionysus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Leanne<\/a>
Leanne and Gaila in front of the Caryatids, it was exceptionally windy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Parthenon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Agora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cAcross the distance, the Acropolis museum cradled within its protective walls its legendary treasures, lulling them to a peaceful sleep under the eerie light from the heavens. Yet, through the large window, the five Caryatids stood alert on their strong platform. The ageless maidens with the long braided hair down their backs remained awake even … Continue reading Acropolis, Agora and a fond farewell to Leanne and Cam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,8,48,47,9],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-acropolis","category-adventures-2","category-antiquities","category-greece","category-history","tag-acropolis","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-sL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}