{"id":218,"date":"2010-01-19T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2010-01-19T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T19:30:00","slug":"las-palmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"LAS PALMAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S1YJN8_RA4I\/AAAAAAAAB1k\/l7wtFZ_T3o4\/s1600-h\/DSC_5258.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428536536156144514\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S1YJN8_RA4I\/AAAAAAAAB1k\/l7wtFZ_T3o4\/s320\/DSC_5258.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" \/><\/a>Las Palmas, the largest city on Gran Canaria, has a broad and varied history and architecture. Even Christopher Columbus spent time here. The first settlers found many wild dogs on the island; at the end of the nineteenth century the city fathers commissioned the statues of dogs to emphasize this fact. Curiously they did not choose the Canarian dog. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>As a city it has wonderful food, art, music, parks, shopping, beaches.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S1YJNDVTxXI\/AAAAAAAAB1c\/Wq4CJEHL1lo\/s1600-h\/IMGP1215.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428536520679343474\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S1YJNDVTxXI\/AAAAAAAAB1c\/Wq4CJEHL1lo\/s320\/IMGP1215.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 240px;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S1YJMjNzeZI\/AAAAAAAAB1U\/pMdbevm31j0\/s1600-h\/IMGP1217.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428536512057932178\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S1YJMjNzeZI\/AAAAAAAAB1U\/pMdbevm31j0\/s320\/IMGP1217.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 240px;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S1YJMGZHtzI\/AAAAAAAAB1M\/ET6zEzGtgok\/s1600-h\/IMGP1222.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428536504320767794\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S1YJMGZHtzI\/AAAAAAAAB1M\/ET6zEzGtgok\/s320\/IMGP1222.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S1YJLlO-ZII\/AAAAAAAAB1E\/FN6EjdKGXOA\/s1600-h\/IMGP1224.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428536495419843714\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/S1YJLlO-ZII\/AAAAAAAAB1E\/FN6EjdKGXOA\/s320\/IMGP1224.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Palmas, the largest city on Gran Canaria, has a broad and varied history and architecture. Even Christopher Columbus spent time here. The first settlers found many wild dogs on the island; at the end of the nineteenth century the city fathers commissioned the statues of dogs to emphasize this fact. Curiously they did not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LAS PALMAS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canary-islands","category-las-palmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}