{"id":4502,"date":"2015-09-11T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:27:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T04:27:43","slug":"rome-tour-vatican-2015-08-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=4502","title":{"rendered":"Rome Tour &#8211; Vatican &#8211; 2015-08-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VbN7VBId3ps\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was highlight of the trip and the last of the tour videos. In it, we visited the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, The Vatican Church, and St. Peter&#8217;s Square. It&#8217;s an awesome, and must-see place to visit at Rome. Going with the early morning 8am guided tour allowed us to cut the line and avoid the crowd. The story of Michael Angelo&#8217;s rebellion against the Popes added spice to his master pieces on the roof and the wall of Sistine Chapel. The Vatican museum were too huge and lack center pieces &#8211; looked like a hodge-podge collection of donated or &#8220;acquired&#8221; jewelries. The church was grand and worthy of being the capital of the Catholic church and the center of political power in the old days. But I didn&#8217;t care for the dried-up\/dead Pope bodies in the church. St Peter&#8217;s Square were full of tourists. Some of them were admiring the Swiss Guards and their &#8220;funny,&#8221; clown-like uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>Rome wasn&#8217;t built in a day, as the saying goes, and couldn&#8217;t be seen and enjoyed in a day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was highlight of the trip and the last of the tour videos. In it, we visited the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, The Vatican Church, and St. Peter&#8217;s Square. It&#8217;s an awesome, and must-see place to visit at Rome. Going with the early morning 8am guided tour allowed us to cut the line and avoid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=4502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rome Tour &#8211; Vatican &#8211; 2015-08-03<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}