{"id":136,"date":"2004-05-09T23:53:01","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T23:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2004-05-09T23:53:01","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T23:53:01","slug":"puttering_around_paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/puttering_around_paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Puttering around Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This Paris trip was fun!  Here&#8217;s how it really began:<br \/>\nI was chatting with Andrew about a month back or so and just casually mentioned that I was heading out here.  He said, &#8220;wow, Ellen and I are going to be in Paris in May too on (dates here)&#8221;.<br \/>\nSo I just did the Paris leg at the beginning of my trip instead of at the end.  Which makes sence since I&#8217;m flying back to CA from LHR instead of CDG, get it? <\/i><br \/>\nNow by an incredible coincidence, Meghan is also here in Paris for a couple of weeks, staying with friends.  We exchanged emails and phone calls and voila, she&#8217;s at the Orsay with me!<br \/>\nBut since you can overdo appreciation of art, we ducked out and visited the Eiffel Tower.  The weather didn&#8217;t get any better so we passed on going up.  That goes on my list of &#8220;things to do next time I&#8217;m in Paris&#8221;.  However, we walked around a lot and caught up.<br \/>\nWe wound up in the Latin Quarter, having coffee at a famous Cafe (Meghan, if you&#8217;re reading this, what was that cafe&#8217;s name again?) and dinner at a reasonable French chain restaurant.  The mussels were good and the main plates were pretty filling.<br \/>\nThen it was time to go home&#8230;tired again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Paris trip was fun! Here&#8217;s how it really began: I was chatting with Andrew about a month back or so and just casually mentioned that I was heading out here. He said, &#8220;wow, Ellen and I are going to be in Paris in May too on (dates here)&#8221;. So I just did the Paris &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/puttering_around_paris\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Puttering around Paris&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2004-05-lhr-cdg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-2c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}