{"id":26119,"date":"2018-09-23T00:21:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26119"},"modified":"2018-09-23T00:21:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T05:21:23","slug":"dix-huit-day-eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26119","title":{"rendered":"Dix-huit &#8211; Day Eighteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Facebook:<\/p>\n<p>This was a happy day and I took lots of pics. Saturday not only saw calliopes and organ grinders but market day under a vast canvas and a huge flea market. We woke to see huge crowds outside our hotel window. We retraced our steps to a great open square and discovered that the city had organized a one mile race for waiters and waitresses carrying trays of beverages in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Before the race we toured yet a other cathedral and Dijon&#8217;s museum of Beaux Arts (early renaissance art). More pics. We stopped for a glass of wine to prepare for watching the great tray carrying marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was off to the races. We saw the start of the spectacle and took a shortcut to the end where we saw the intrepid wait professionals race to the finish line with background accompaniment by organ grinders. As a last pic you will see a statue of a polar bear near where Claudia and I will be picked up to start a full day tour of Beauene tomorrow. I don&#8217;t know what the bear stands for but the brass owls we found embedded in the streets are a symbol of Dijon. Following their trail takes you to everything of interest.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the Pics: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1854\/30975780268_7719e186c9_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1947\/44798342202_82cd74cac1_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1958\/44798365402_bb49b64f32_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1941\/44848029701_fa856a0ca3_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1929\/44798468282_d69b7c2d32_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Facebook: This was a happy day and I took lots of pics. Saturday not only saw calliopes and organ grinders but market day&#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-26119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26119","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=26119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26122,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26119\/revisions\/26122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}