{"id":42,"date":"2008-09-07T14:56:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T13:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-12-03T16:58:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T15:58:46","slug":"exploring-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/2008\/09\/exploring-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (Sunday) was a good day. Our friend Manuel came to Madrid to see us and show us around a bit. We did a lot of walking and had a good time. He took us for some traditional Spanish <em>tapas<\/em> (type of appetizers), and we walked by the place where they have an open-air book market near the Prado, by several of the libraries, and through one of the botanical gardens. Manuel was a fountain of knowledge about buildings and the city&#8217;s history. He made us feel very welcome, and we chatted with his wife Chus by phone.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_194\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel and Mary in front of one of the tapa restaurants.\" title=\"tapas1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas1.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manuel and Mary in front of one of the tapa restaurants.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_195\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Puck and Mary at the bar.\" title=\"tapas2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas2.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Puck and Mary at the bar.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_196\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel and Paco\" title=\"tapas3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tapas3.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manuel and Paco<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_197\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plaza1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plaza1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel told us tales of the city as we walked the streets. Here we are in the Plaza Mayor.\" title=\"plaza1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plaza1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plaza1.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manuel told us tales of the city as we walked the streets. Here we are in the Plaza Mayor.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_198\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plaza2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plaza2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"People for hundred of years watched spectacles from the balconies all around the plaza.\" title=\"plaza2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plaza2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plaza2.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People for hundred of years watched spectacles from the balconies all around the plaza.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (Sunday) was a good day. Our friend Manuel came to Madrid to see us and show us around a bit. We did a lot of walking and had a good time. He took us for some traditional Spanish tapas (type of appetizers), and we walked by the place where they have an open-air book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}