{"id":14,"date":"2011-07-10T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=14"},"modified":"2013-12-23T00:48:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T00:48:48","slug":"dc-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"DC &#8211; Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which our heroes visit <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=white+house&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=us&amp;hq=white+house&amp;hnear=white+house&amp;ei=TRwaTtijHYvrgQea2uAa&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local_result&amp;ct=image&amp;ved=0CAQQtgM&amp;cid=0,0,16690021471939518983\">The White House<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/\">The National Museum of American History<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordstheatre.org\/\">Ford&#8217;s Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--QhR5Sf2ZNA\/ThocunFXw4I\/AAAAAAAAAb0\/6XSS7f8Baa0\/s1600\/am-hist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--QhR5Sf2ZNA\/ThocunFXw4I\/AAAAAAAAAb0\/6XSS7f8Baa0\/s640\/am-hist.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We took the Metro to the Smithsonian stop and walked to the American History Museum.\u00a0 The Star Spangled Banner is in a new display (with no photos allowed?\u00a0 aw, man!) and they have Julia Childs&#8217; kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>From there we took the Metro to Ford&#8217;s Theater.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t tour, but there are tours every half hour.\u00a0 They seemed a little pricey, but your National Park Service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/findapark\/passes.htm\">America the Beautiful Pass<\/a> may get you in.<\/p>\n<p>Then we walked to the White House.\u00a0 There is some renovation going on (<i>of course<\/i>) at the Ellipse.\u00a0 We took photos on the north side and the south side, then walked to the Metro and came back to the hotel.\u00a0 Our subway was PACKED.\u00a0 More Dalai Lama classes and more baseball made for a hot and crowded subway car.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow &#8212; The Capitol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which our heroes visit The White House, The National Museum of American History, and Ford&#8217;s Theater. We took the Metro to the Smithsonian stop and walked to the American History Museum.\u00a0 The Star Spangled Banner is in a new display (with no photos allowed?\u00a0 aw, man!) and they have Julia Childs&#8217; kitchen. From there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}