{"id":1281,"date":"2014-09-06T02:10:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T09:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paualready.com\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2014-09-06T02:10:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T09:10:54","slug":"another-travel-day-ruined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"Another travel day &#8220;ruined.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paualready.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0367.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1291\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paualready.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0367-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Sevilla\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Laurel has a fondness for ruins of the Roman variety. We\u2019ve hit many of the biggies; Rome, Pompeii, Arles, but also several smaller, less-known empirical remnants. Leaving Zagreb a couple of years ago, we zigzagged over a series of two-lane suburban roads until, just across from the Croat equivalent of a 7-11, was this cool little collection ancient foundations, ovens &amp; gristmills. Friday, just north of Sevilla, we added Italica to our list of ruin sites. Nice mosaics, huge amphitheater, all under an incredibly blue Andalusian sky.<\/p>\n<p>The exit from Sevilla was interesting.\u00a0 I\u2019ve driven in busy big city traffic in a lot of the world, but getting out of this little burb was the toughest I\u2019ve been through and the GPS seems to have gotten quite unable to differentiate between a corner and a traffic circle. The trip into Cordoba wasn\u2019t a lot better. Maybe I\u2019m not cut out for Spanish motoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurel has a fondness for ruins of the Roman variety. We\u2019ve hit many of the biggies; Rome, Pompeii, Arles, but also several smaller, less-known empirical remnants. Leaving Zagreb a couple of years ago, we zigzagged over a series of two-lane suburban roads until, just across from the Croat equivalent of a 7-11, was this cool &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/?p=1281\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another travel day &#8220;ruined.&#8221;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,8],"tags":[43,50],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euro-2014","category-trips","tag-euro-2014","tag-spain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6E0Kx-kF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}