{"id":305,"date":"2009-07-08T23:45:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T10:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2009-10-29T13:41:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T12:41:24","slug":"ancient-rome-colosseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Rome &#038; Colosseum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every angle of the streets of Rome is a marvel, with ancient ruins and cobbled streets viewable in every direction.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0207-s.jpg\" alt=\"Foro di Cesare (Forum of Caesar)\" height=\"400\" title=\"Foro di Cesare (Forum of Caesar)\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nForo di Cesare (Forum of Caesar) &#8211; Built between 54 &amp; 46BC<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0216-s.jpg\" alt=\"Colosseum in Daylight\" height=\"267\" title=\"Colosseum in Daylight\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDue to the G8 summit, and visiting world leaders including Barack Obama, we were unable to get any closer.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0224.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0224-s.jpg\" alt=\"Rome Colosseum reflected\" height=\"267\" title=\"Rome Colosseum reflected\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nReflections on Niki<\/p>\n<p>With the hassles of not being able to shoot the Colosseum up close or inside, Peter and I decided to venture off later in the evening once the area was reopened.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0246-s.jpg\" alt=\"Arch of Constantine &amp; Colosseum\" height=\"267\" title=\"Arch of Constantine &amp; Colosseum\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nArch of Constantine &amp; Colosseum<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0267.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0267-s.jpg\" alt=\"Colosseum at Night\" height=\"267\" title=\"Colosseum at Night\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0272.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0272-s.jpg\" alt=\"Colosseum detail at night with moon\" height=\"267\" title=\"Colosseum detail at night with moon\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nColosseum Detail with the moon rising<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_0277-s.jpg\" alt=\"Colosseum and Traffic Trails\" height=\"267\" title=\"Colosseum and Traffic Trails\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLight trails by the Colosseum at which point we had to rush back to catch our last metro and bus around midnight.<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=warrenwilliams\" class=\"addthis_button\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" height=\"16\" style=\"border: 0px\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pub=warrenwilliams\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-history","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}