{"id":15,"date":"2009-11-22T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2013-05-26T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:36:10","slug":"day-1-pompidou-and-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/day-1-pompidou-and-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 &#8211; Pompidou and dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wandered around the general vicinity of the Pompidou for about an hour, looking at the shops and our map. \u00c2\u00a0Why didn&#8217;t we think to bring a compass? \u00c2\u00a0When the streets go all sorts of crazy directions, how do you keep track of North? \u00c2\u00a0But we eventually got there, and it was really exciting. \u00c2\u00a0We definitely will be going back before we leave.<\/p>\n<p>When we got there, there was a street actor\/director putting on a &#8216;show&#8217;. \u00c2\u00a0His actors were dragged out of the audience (2 didn&#8217;t speak French), and he directed them in an action sequence where the girl breaks up the fight and ends up with the hero in the end. \u00c2\u00a0It was a hoot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wildsprite.com\/gallery\/v\/honeymoon\/Paris\/P1030116.JPG.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Eli at the Pompidou\" src=\"http:\/\/wildsprite.com\/gallery\/d\/3285-2\/P1030116.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most striking exhibits (to me anyway), was the giant cube made of toothpicks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wildsprite.com\/gallery\/v\/honeymoon\/Paris\/P1030121.JPG.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Toothpicks!\" src=\"http:\/\/wildsprite.com\/gallery\/d\/3288-2\/P1030121.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a fantastic dinner at a random restaurant. \u00c2\u00a0We had risotto with fromage, and chicken caesar salad with potatoes. \u00c2\u00a0They were both incredibly tasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wandered around the general vicinity of the Pompidou for about an hour, looking at the shops and our map. \u00c2\u00a0Why didn&#8217;t we think to bring a compass? \u00c2\u00a0When the streets go all sorts of crazy directions, how do you keep track of North? \u00c2\u00a0But we eventually got there, and it was really exciting. \u00c2\u00a0We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}