{"id":26096,"date":"2018-09-17T00:36:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T05:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26096"},"modified":"2018-10-08T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T18:02:08","slug":"douze-twelve-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26096","title":{"rendered":"Douze (Twelve) Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my Facebook entry:<\/p>\n<p>Today we traveled on the french rails and I snapped several pics of the countryside as we zipped along on our way to Bordeaux. It was only this morning that I realized Rick Steve&#8217;s completely left the city out of his 500 page guide to France. I wondered if our two day jaunt would be a waste. You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out to be one of the innumerable annual French Holiday weekends where everyone, not in the service industry, takes a 3 or 4 day weekend thus the crowds scenes. This one was Patrinomy Day. As a result lots of government agencies let the public in for a peek at their work at no charge. At the Customs House I took part in a vintage demonstration of hunting down smugglers with my keen smelling hound. At another I took a picture of the natural history staff carrying a properly anesthetized exhibit up a stairwell.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we had to tour the local gothic cathedral and were so moved (by hunger) that we ate a mouth watering meal in the bistro across the way. We were tempted by the item just above the children&#8217;s section of the menu but sadly it wasn&#8217;t being served on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A few pics referenced above:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1892\/44674049362_b4ed593bdf_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1879\/42913981600_54981c126f_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1847\/44005875684_66970500bf_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1877\/44005911044_df069ffaf3_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my Facebook entry: Today we traveled on the french rails and I snapped several pics of the countryside as we zipped along on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26097,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions\/26097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}