{"id":233,"date":"2009-02-27T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T00:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/2009\/02\/naxos.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:15","slug":"naxos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/2009\/02\/naxos\/","title":{"rendered":"Naxos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the Greek colony of Naxos, agreed by the Greek sources to be the first of the Greek colonies in Sicily &#8212; but a bit of an odd one. Not much land, no columns in the temples, Sicels very close by &#8212; but famed for its vines, which it stuck on its coins, and alluded to in its wonderful Silenus-head antefixes. The colony itself has become an orchard of fruit trees, and with the sun shining gloriously it seemd a veritable Phaeacia for a washed-up vagabon, or an ICCS student&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Fruit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fruit.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Fruit-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/templeA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"templeA.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/2009\/02\/templeA-thumb-240x240.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>For more pictures of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-photos\/giardini-naxos\/\">Naxos<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the Greek colony of Naxos, agreed by the Greek sources to be the first of the Greek colonies in Sicily &#8212; but a bit of an odd one. Not much land, no columns in the temples, Sicels very&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/2009\/02\/naxos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}