{"id":2552,"date":"2011-12-17T03:37:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T08:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2011-12-17T03:37:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T08:37:16","slug":"waiting-leonardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2552","title":{"rendered":"WAITING FOR LEONARDO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2552 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75013.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75013-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75013-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75013-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2553'>\n\t\t\t\tREFLECTIONS\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75015.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75015-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75015-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75015-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2554'>\n\t\t\t\tDA VINCI EXHIBIT\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75016.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75016-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75016-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75016-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2555'>\n\t\t\t\tLINE AFTER 1 1\/2 HOURS\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75018.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75018-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75018-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75018-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2556'>\n\t\t\t\tFEET IN LINE\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75020.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75020-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75020-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/london-12-13-11-75020-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2557'>\n\t\t\t\tBEHIND NELSON&#8217;S BACK\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>One of our goals while in london had been to try to get in to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/whats-on\/exhibitions\/leonardo-da-vinci-painter-at-the-court-of-milan\">Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit<\/a>. Ticket were unobtainable, having sold out within minutes of the exhibit being announced. Each day, however approximately 500 people who waited in line were able to go in. Apart from waiting in the cold, it was exceedingly well organized and orderly. Once in, you could stay as long as you liked.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rorc.org\/\"> RORC<\/a>, dropped our bags and went to get in line. It made for a very long but rewarding day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our goals while in london had been to try to get in to see the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit. Ticket were unobtainable, having sold out within minutes of the exhibit being announced. Each day, however approximately 500 people who waited in line were able to go in. Apart from waiting in the cold, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2552\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WAITING FOR LEONARDO<\/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":[1067],"tags":[1064,1065,2409,1066],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits","tag-leonardo-da-vinci","tag-national-gallery","tag-rorc","tag-trafalgar-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","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=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}