{"id":418,"date":"2008-09-01T15:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T15:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:04:01","slug":"piazza-armerina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/piazza-armerina\/","title":{"rendered":"Piazza Armerina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tA vast and stunning Roman villa in the center of Sicily, Piazza Armerina gies a fine idea of the luxury of elite life in the fourth century, even during the time of Constantine&#39;s revolutions. The mosaics are famous, both for their daring and unusual compositions:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/PAHercroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PAHercroom.jpg\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/PAHercroom-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd for the frequent children&#39;s scenes, where the children take the place of adults in adult activities:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/PAkids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PAkids.jpg\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/PAkids-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd for the &quot;Bikini Girls&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Bikini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bikini.jpg\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Bikini-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd unlike Pliny, who describes his own luxury house in his epistles, this house has a steady water supply, having its very own aqueduct. It is almost like a small town on its own.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/StudPAaqueduct.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"StudPAaqueduct.jpg\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/StudPAaqueduct-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vast and stunning Roman villa in the center of Sicily, Piazza Armerina gies a fine idea of the luxury of elite life in the fourth century, even during the time of Constantine&#39;s revolutions. The mosaics are famous, both for&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/piazza-armerina\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Piazza Armerina<\/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-418","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions\/861"}],"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=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}