{"id":398,"date":"2008-08-21T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/?page_id=398"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:04:01","slug":"taormina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/taormina\/","title":{"rendered":"Taormina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThe poshest of the resorts on Sicily&#39;s east coast, and a nightmare to drive around, Taormina is perched on a crag that pokes out into the sea. It also boasts a spectacular theatre, dating from the Hellenistic period, but largely Roman in what remains. It plays host to concerts today.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Tao.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tao.jpg\"  height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Tao-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tThere is also a fairly well preserved, but largely ignored, odeon near by.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/TaoOdeon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TaoOdeon.jpg\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/TaoOdeon-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tThe Mediterranean Cultures class visits Taormina as part of the sequence on Romanization that closes the semester.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poshest of the resorts on Sicily&#39;s east coast, and a nightmare to drive around, Taormina is perched on a crag that pokes out into the sea. It also boasts a spectacular theatre, dating from the Hellenistic period, but largely&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/taormina\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Taormina<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"parent":744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-398","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions\/867"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}