{"id":662,"date":"2008-08-24T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=662"},"modified":"2011-12-15T18:50:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T01:50:21","slug":"sacre-coeur-part-2-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/sacre-coeur-part-2-of-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacre-Coeur (part 2 of 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We walked through the interior of Sacre-Coeur. Photography was not allowed, but it looked pretty similar to the other churches we&#8217;d been through in Paris with very high ceilings. Walking mats had been placed throughout much of the interior which covered up the fancy floors. It reminded me of those people that cover their furniture in plastic. Sure it may keep whatever you are trying to protect in pristine condition, but no one gets to enjoy the protected item in the meantime so what exactly are you protecting it for?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6935trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6935trim-800x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"paris from sacre-coeur\" width=\"800\" height=\"707\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6935trim-800x707.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6935trim-149x132.jpg 149w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6935trim.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back outside we waited with hundreds of others for the sun to set. The police cut off access to the upper area which meant no one could get up. For some unknown reason, the public toilets up top were also all closed around dusk. So now we had hundreds, if not more than a thousand, people crowded up top with no place to pee. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6953trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6953trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sacre-coeur at night\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6953trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6953trim-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6953trim.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The views of the church and Paris below got better and better. Musicians came out of the woodwork to entertain the crowds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6952trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6952trim-799x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Eiffel Tower at night from Sacre-Coeur\" width=\"799\" height=\"685\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6952trim-799x685.jpg 799w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6952trim-150x128.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_6952trim.jpg 1225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t actually see the Eiffel Tower from Sacre-Coeur as there are a bunch of apartment buildings blocking the view. However, if you head to the side a bit and peak through some trees you can get the above view. At the top of each hour the Eiffel Tower does a light show for 10 or so minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We walked through the interior of Sacre-Coeur. Photography was not allowed, but it looked pretty similar to the other churches we&#8217;d been through in Paris with very high ceilings. Walking mats had been placed throughout much of the interior which covered up the fancy floors. It reminded me of those people that cover their furniture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[132,131,575,16,138,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8710,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/8710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}