{"id":1519,"date":"2008-12-27T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2008-12-18T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T18:53:16","slug":"st-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/st-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Peter&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01900trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01900trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"light streaming in st. peter\\&#039;s\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01900trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01900trim-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01900trim.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is the same every day, but on the day we visited <a href=http:\/\/www.2think.org\/stpeters.shtml>St. Peter&#8217;s<\/a> there were tons of people lined up in the morning to enter. Once we got in we could barely move and it wasn&#8217;t all that enjoyable. <\/p>\n<p>After St. Peter&#8217;s we went into the Vatican Museum (which was also extremely crowded). In late afternoon, after coming out of the Vatican, we noticed that there was no line for St. Peter&#8217;s so we walked back in. The difference was striking. Not only was the place relatively empty but the afternoon sun was streaming in making the place far more beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01903trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01903trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"light rays through st. peter\\&#039;s dome\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01903trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01903trim-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01903trim.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the main dome. It is hard to capture just how huge it is in a picture. Imagine a person floating up there. Well, you&#8217;d barely be able to see them. That&#8217;s how big it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01906trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01906trim-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Swiss Pikemen pikes pikeman\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01906trim-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01906trim-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc01906trim.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we see a couple of Swiss Pikemen guarding the Vatican doors. These are real guards, not just props for the tourists to take photographs of. I think their official title is something like Papal Swiss Guards. If you have played Age of Empires II or III you know a pikeman can easily be taken out with a few crossbowmen. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is the same every day, but on the day we visited St. Peter&#8217;s there were tons of people lined up in the morning to enter. Once we got in we could barely move and it wasn&#8217;t all that enjoyable. After St. Peter&#8217;s we went into the Vatican Museum (which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[171,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}