{"id":4632,"date":"2012-08-04T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:12:21","slug":"a-delightful-add-on-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2012\/08\/04\/a-delightful-add-on-in-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"A delightful add on in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4651\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2012\/08\/athens5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4651 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2012\/08\/athens5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mask of Agamemnon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2012\/08\/DSC05168-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4650 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2012\/08\/DSC05168-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Reminiscences 2024<\/p>\n<p>We stayed at the Grand Bretagne In Athens, which gave us time to savor a luxury hotel&#8211;and to spend time in the National Archeological Museum, which housed the statue of Poseidon and the Mask of Agamemnon (which wasn&#8217;t the Mask of Agamemnon, but was still pretty impressive nonetheless. It dates back to the 16th century BC).\u00a0 What a treat before the trek back to Bloomington.<\/p>\n<p>And ending the trip with a dinner on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2012\/08\/DSC05234.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4654\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2012\/08\/DSC05234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2012\/08\/DSC05230-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4655 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2012\/08\/DSC05230-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>the rooftop of the Grand Bretagne, with the Acropolis in full view!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminiscences 2024 We stayed at the Grand Bretagne In Athens, which gave us time to savor a luxury hotel&#8211;and to spend time in the National Archeological Museum, which housed the statue of Poseidon and the Mask of Agamemnon (which wasn&#8217;t the Mask of Agamemnon, but was still pretty impressive nonetheless. It dates back to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2012\/08\/04\/a-delightful-add-on-in-athens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A delightful add on in Athens&#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":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-venice-and-the-med-2012"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","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=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8828,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions\/8828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}