{"id":452,"date":"2010-09-08T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T22:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tostevin.net\/?p=452"},"modified":"2018-01-01T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T14:36:18","slug":"more-romans-%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"More Romans \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we went to the nearby town of Orange to view the Roman Theatre.<br \/>\nIt was pretty spectacular and as Annelies &#038; I sat in the stalls that could house 8 to 10,000 people you could quite imagine the plays and mimes so beloved by the Roman masses taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Orange is of course also famous as the  principality associated with William I the leader of the independence movement in Holland. In 1568 he declared the Dutch republic and led the revolt against the Spanish rule &#8230;.. here my knowledge runs out and much to Annelies chagrin so does hers !<\/p>\n<p>We had an interesting evening meal in Orange during which I spent most of the time trying to coax any facts out of Annelies. (there weren&#8217;t many!)<\/p>\n<p>By the way \u2026 completely unrelated &#8230;. but the owners of our Gite have got a really cute little dog called Robbie &#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/p_1600_1200_3E6F20EB-21A9-4917-BD2A-B1EAAB987C30.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/p_1600_1200_3E6F20EB-21A9-4917-BD2A-B1EAAB987C30.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"   width=\"145\" height=\"200\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/l_1600_1200_380F451D-3E25-421C-8A24-275884952D04.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/l_1600_1200_380F451D-3E25-421C-8A24-275884952D04.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"   width=\"200\" height=\"145\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/p_1600_1200_E3B46F15-D19C-419E-8647-3D17B76CCFB3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/p_1600_1200_E3B46F15-D19C-419E-8647-3D17B76CCFB3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"   width=\"145\" height=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we went to the nearby town of Orange to view the Roman Theatre. It was pretty spectacular and as Annelies &#038; I sat in the stalls that could house 8 to 10,000 people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[37],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/l_1600_1200_380F451D-3E25-421C-8A24-275884952D04.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Fp9-7i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}