{"id":701,"date":"2009-04-26T05:52:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T05:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/26\/early-morning-in-pisa\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T08:53:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T08:53:41","slug":"early-morning-in-pisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/26\/early-morning-in-pisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Early morning in Pisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been up since 6am, walking the streets of Pisa. The weather was likely to turn today and I also wanted to get some photographs around the leaning tower without people in them. More importantly i needed to justify lugging my tripod with me! The cloud was just starting to blow in when I left the hotel so I figured I had about an hour before the light would dull and the rain would fall.<br \/>\nIt was interesting that there was a few straggling site seers around, I can only presume people getting read to leave, taking the last opportunity before they go. Alternatively they could just be mad like me!<br \/>\nHopefully i&#8217;ve got some half decent shots, I&#8217;ll post them when I get back.<br \/>\nLast night we took the last tour up the tower &#8211; just as the light was fading; that was some experience! I was very proud of Victoria who once more grappled her fear of hights to add the tower to her conquest of the Statue of Liberty!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s 8am now &#8211; the bells are calling people to worship &#8211; I however need a coffee!!<\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/11\/celebrity-spotting\/\" title=\"Celebrity Spotting&#8230;\">Celebrity Spotting&#8230;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/02\/20\/flickr-flickriver-and-favourites\/\" title=\"Flickr, Flickriver, and Favourites\">Flickr, Flickriver, and Favourites<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/22\/summer-solstice-2008\/\" title=\"Summer Solstice 2008\">Summer Solstice 2008<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/21\/photos-2\/\" title=\"Photos\">Photos<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/04\/apsley-house\/\" title=\"Apsley House\">Apsley House<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been up since 6am, walking the streets of Pisa. The weather was likely to turn today and I also wanted to get some photographs around the leaning tower without people in them. More importantly i needed to justify lugging my tripod with me! The cloud was just starting to blow in when I left &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/26\/early-morning-in-pisa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early morning in Pisa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[30],"tags":[238,117,118,174,116],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","tag-holiday","tag-italy","tag-photographs","tag-photography","tag-pisa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-bj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}