{"id":137,"date":"2013-06-17T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2013-06-17T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:01:58","slug":"taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blogging business is hard work, and since I usually don&#8217;t start until after the kids go to bed around 9:30 or 10:00, it&#8217;s starting to interfere with my sleep, so tonight I am taking a break. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Not much to report anyway. Great lunch near the Spanish Steps (called Life), a great handbag purchase (my first shopping of the trip), another trip to Villa Borghese park (where I almost crushed a very mean little Italian boy who was absolutely awful to Max), and gelato at our favorite Gelateria. The weather has been so hot for the past few days that it drains all of our energy, but is supposed to cool back down to the low &#8217;80s next week. It may be worth another visit to St. Peter&#8217;s just to pray for cooler weather.<\/p>\n<p>A few photos, and I&#8217;m off to bed with a glass of wine and a <del datetime=\"2013-06-17T19:35:36+00:00\">book<\/del> kindle. Ahhhh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image36.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138 aligncenter\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image36-282x300.jpg\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image36-282x300.jpg 282w, http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image36-965x1024.jpg 965w, http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image36.jpg 1833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image37.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139 aligncenter\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image37-300x227.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image37-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image37-1024x775.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image37.jpg 1742w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image38-e1371498956555.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-140 aligncenter\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image38-e1371498956555-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image38-e1371498956555-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image38-e1371498956555-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/travelsinparallel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/image38-e1371498956555.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blogging business is hard work, and since I usually don&#8217;t start until after the kids go to bed around 9:30 or 10:00, it&#8217;s starting to interfere with my sleep, so tonight I am taking a break. \ud83d\ude42 Not much to report anyway. 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