{"id":2662,"date":"2010-09-16T01:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2010-09-19T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T20:04:01","slug":"on-september-16th-2010-the-french-academys-villa-medici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2010\/09\/16\/on-september-16th-2010-the-french-academys-villa-medici\/","title":{"rendered":"On September 16th, 2010, THE FRENCH ACADEMY&#8217;S VILLA MEDICI&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2663\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2663\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/2010\/09\/16\/on-september-16th-2010-the-french-academys-villa-medici\/2010-09-16-p1160534\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2663\" title=\"view from Villa Medici\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-09-16-P1160534-266x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-09-16-P1160534-266x150.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-09-16-P1160534-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-09-16-P1160534.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">early evening view from Villa Medici gardens towards Saint Peter&#39;s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;is one of my favorite places in the Rome &#8211; where I&#8217;m lucky to have some French friends of friends in residence who I can go visit &#8211; and today I was treated to a tour of the gardens by one of the French fellows, a landscape historian who took us to the 20m high artificial mound known as Mt. Parnassus, and them deep underground into the chambers beneath it &#8211; an academic interpretation of which was provided in great detail &#8211; in French &#8211; so I left with only a general sense of his insights, which was fine &amp; a bit more mysterious. (links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villamedici.it\/it\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Academie Francais<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunacommons.org\/luna\/servlet\/view\/all\/what\/Villa+Medici+%28Rome,+Italy%29\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo archive<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Villa_Medici\" target=\"_blank\">Wiki page<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is one of my favorite places in the Rome &#8211; where I&#8217;m lucky to have some French friends of friends in residence who I can go visit &#8211;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[12,1730,1759,503],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","tag-french","tag-gardens","tag-rome","tag-villa-medici"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}