{"id":3137,"date":"2020-03-13T14:12:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:07:04","slug":"cordoba-where-spain-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2020\/03\/13\/cordoba-where-spain-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Cordoba: where Spain Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2020\/04\/DSC03670.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3149 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2020\/04\/DSC03670-125x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/cordiba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3142\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/cordiba-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/cordiba-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/cordiba-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/cordiba.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 85vw, 220px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/89656801_10158156981507938_8265738241315962880_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3141 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/89656801_10158156981507938_8265738241315962880_n-125x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cordoba.. the great mosque with the cathedral inside, Roman bridge, and birthplace of Maimonides.\u00a0 We were in the mosque turned cathedral when word came that it was closing tomorrow for 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2020\/04\/20200313_060451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3147 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2020\/04\/20200313_060451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>weeks\u00a0 (as we thought <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/89787395_10158156982012938_6032863896077860864_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3138 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/89787395_10158156982012938_6032863896077860864_n-125x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>optimistically at the time). In fact, COVID was causing Spain itself to shut down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2020\/03\/89775273_10158156981667938_5933307915661213696_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7710\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2020\/03\/89775273_10158156981667938_5933307915661213696_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our trip to Granada was canceled and we sped to Malaga, where we were supposed to catch our flight home.\u00a0 We were now in the hands of our travel agent. Carolyn&#8217;s dream of Gibraltar and mine of Granada were thwarted as we <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/89645214_10158156981857938_2213016602599751680_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3139 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2024\/11\/89645214_10158156981857938_2213016602599751680_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>scrambled to get back to the US. Get us home, I pleaded, and left the details to our agent. Who knew it would be the end of our international travel?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Cordoba.. the great mosque with the cathedral inside, Roman bridge, and birthplace of Maimonides.\u00a0 We were in the mosque turned cathedral when word came that it was closing tomorrow for 2 weeks\u00a0 (as we thought optimistically at the time). In fact, COVID was causing Spain itself to shut down. Our trip to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2020\/03\/13\/cordoba-where-spain-shut-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cordoba: where Spain Shut Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain-2020-before-the-virus-hit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}