{"id":31,"date":"2008-08-14T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-08-14T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T18:49:00","slug":"my-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"my town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKR-gZ3zA3I\/AAAAAAAAAOQ\/S9ia9vrC4_0\/s1600-h\/map+narra.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKR-gZ3zA3I\/AAAAAAAAAOQ\/S9ia9vrC4_0\/s320\/map+narra.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234447762077188978\" \/><\/a>Newport, is a tourist town, even the vikings visited;home to the oldest synagogue in America, designed by the same architect as Trinity church. In Newport the Jews and Christians co-existed harmoniously in colonial times as now George Washington even spoke at Touro.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>My  Newport is a town with many layers. each intriguing in it&#8217;s own right; for me, however, I must have somehow been infected with sea water at a young age, as I keep returning to the ocean<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKR-ghCIfgI\/AAAAAAAAAOY\/cBls2Bl-vZM\/s1600-h\/viking+tower:moon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKR-ghCIfgI\/AAAAAAAAAOY\/cBls2Bl-vZM\/s320\/viking+tower:moon.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234447763999587842\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKR-hHUNtTI\/AAAAAAAAAOg\/kcxc4R1w5FM\/s1600-h\/ghost:turo+park.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKR-hHUNtTI\/AAAAAAAAAOg\/kcxc4R1w5FM\/s320\/ghost:turo+park.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234447774275974450\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKR-hjuRpPI\/AAAAAAAAAOo\/34psaabafU8\/s1600-h\/miantonomi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKR-hjuRpPI\/AAAAAAAAAOo\/34psaabafU8\/s320\/miantonomi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234447781901477106\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKR-hg6r60I\/AAAAAAAAAOw\/EmL-b2xYK6o\/s1600-h\/downtown+newport.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKR-hg6r60I\/AAAAAAAAAOw\/EmL-b2xYK6o\/s320\/downtown+newport.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234447781148224322\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newport, is a tourist town, even the vikings visited;home to the oldest synagogue in America, designed by the same architect as Trinity church. In Newport the Jews and Christians co-existed harmoniously in colonial times as now George Washington even spoke at Touro. My Newport is a town with many layers. each intriguing in it&#8217;s own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=31\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">my town<\/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":[87,86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newport-ri","category-seamans-church-institute","category-viking-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}