{"id":457,"date":"2008-09-24T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/?page_id=457"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:04:02","slug":"aci-castello-the-normans-and-polyphemus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/nicholsons\/aci-castello-the-normans-and-polyphemus\/","title":{"rendered":"Aci Castello, the Normans and Polyphemus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tHere we are in a fine Norman castle, on what used to be an island, but was later connected by a large lava flow out of Etna:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/761-thumb-180x240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for 761.jpg\"  height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/2008\/09\/761-thumb-180x240-thumb-180x240.jpg\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"751.jpg\"  height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/751-thumb-180x240.jpg\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/743.jpg\" \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"743.jpg\"  height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/743-thumb-180x240.jpg\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a>This is meant to look like Mark being a Cyclops, throwing a large rock at a ship&#8230;&nbsp;The rocks you can see in the distance behind the castle are said to be those thrown by Polyphemus at Odysseus as he escaped with his ship&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/745.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"745.jpg\"  height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/745-thumb-180x240.jpg\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tIndeed Aci Castello is named after the castle and the river Aci, said to be what remains of Acis, a favoured rival killed by Polyphemus when he was rejected in his suit for Galatea.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are in a fine Norman castle, on what used to be an island, but was later connected by a large lava flow out of Etna:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"parent":684,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-457","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/457\/revisions\/882"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}