{"id":70,"date":"2008-09-16T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2008-09-16T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:59:00","slug":"paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"PARIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNAggFWpdYI\/AAAAAAAAA20\/WkbQc4Vqdok\/s1600-h\/DSC_0895.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNAggFWpdYI\/AAAAAAAAA20\/WkbQc4Vqdok\/s320\/DSC_0895.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246729301451699586\" \/><\/a>I love Paris. The sights, the smells, the sounds, the food; even the language. French is my second language, I studied it starting at a young age and continued through college. I married a french woman, whose family embraced me wholly. I freely confess that I know France largely through their perspective, one I could never have known any other way. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>How do I select the photos to represent this city where there is a new and exciting discovery on every corner.  <\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>The French love their language and enjoy playing with it, which they do well. The are proud of their country as well; that said the French have had a fascination with America since before the Revolution; which has never waned, despite the idea we have that the French do not like us.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNAggKtthaI\/AAAAAAAAA28\/eXRtZl4S6tc\/s1600-h\/view+night+st.odelle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNAggKtthaI\/AAAAAAAAA28\/eXRtZl4S6tc\/s320\/view+night+st.odelle.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246729302890612130\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNAggUK33AI\/AAAAAAAAA3E\/JRSPR1RogR4\/s1600-h\/DSC_0993.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNAggUK33AI\/AAAAAAAAA3E\/JRSPR1RogR4\/s320\/DSC_0993.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246729305428843522\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNAggjfjtKI\/AAAAAAAAA3M\/gUWPt3mgAwA\/s1600-h\/IMGP0530.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNAggjfjtKI\/AAAAAAAAA3M\/gUWPt3mgAwA\/s320\/IMGP0530.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246729309542134946\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNAggu2i7FI\/AAAAAAAAA3U\/WnGanr0bFus\/s1600-h\/dubonnet+2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNAggu2i7FI\/AAAAAAAAA3U\/WnGanr0bFus\/s320\/dubonnet+2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246729312591342674\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Paris. The sights, the smells, the sounds, the food; even the language. French is my second language, I studied it starting at a young age and continued through college. I married a french woman, whose family embraced me wholly. I freely confess that I know France largely through their perspective, one I could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=70\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PARIS<\/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":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}