{"id":262,"date":"2014-08-09T09:03:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T09:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?p=262"},"modified":"2014-10-06T01:54:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T01:54:23","slug":"tuscany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Tuscany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within these pages I will explore the beautiful northern region of <a title=\"Tuscany\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/\">Tuscany<\/a> in text and images. The main focus will be on <a title=\"Florence\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=157\">Florence<\/a>, the region\u2019s capital, its art and architecture, politics and history, and some of the\u00a0remarkable characters from the time of its Renaissance. I will also visit the fascinating medieval city of <a title=\"Prato\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=654\">Prato<\/a> and admire the art\u00a0of cities such as Lucca, <a title=\"Siena\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=1069\">Sienna<\/a> and <a title=\"Pisa\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=1051\">Pisa<\/a>, after\u00a0visiting the beautiful upland <a title=\"Valley of the Mugello\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=1071\">valley of the Mugello<\/a>, the Medici homeland and the foundation\u00a0of their wealth and authority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within these pages I will explore the beautiful northern region of Tuscany in text and images. The main focus will be on Florence, the region\u2019s capital, its art and architecture, politics and history, and some of the\u00a0remarkable characters from the time of its Renaissance. I will also visit the fascinating medieval city of Prato and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?p=262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuscany<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tuscany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}