{"id":274,"date":"2019-03-31T05:42:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T12:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2019-03-31T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T18:39:28","slug":"knossos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/knossos\/","title":{"rendered":"Knossos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, between the raindrops, we had a lovely tour of the palace in Europe&#8217;s oldest city, Knossos. The palace ruins you will see are from 1700 BCE! (Although some of the items are reconstructions of what they think it looked like.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190330233152_IMG_3902-e1554035380534-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190330233152_IMG_3902-e1554035380534-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190330233152_IMG_3902-e1554035380534-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190330233152_IMG_3902-e1554035380534.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The city around the palace was built in 7000 BCE. Layers upon layers of buildings with lots of questions. For instance, what does the double headed axe represent? (Hint: it is not a weapon.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190331_114816-e1554035083666-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190331_114816-e1554035083666-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190331_114816-e1554035083666-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And where is the labyrinth they talk about? Perhaps it is just the many splendored palace with 4 stories of amazing rooms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190331_120401-e1554035177576-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190331_120401-e1554035177576-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_20190331_120401-e1554035177576-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And the Minotaur? How did he come in? Just a wonderful myth about the Greek gods, created 1000 years later. I love those Greek myths!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More photos in <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/XuY3shLTPz3ZDGL6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the Crete album (opens in a new tab)\">the Crete album<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, between the raindrops, we had a lovely tour of the palace in Europe&#8217;s oldest city, Knossos. The palace ruins you will see are from 1700 BCE! (Although some of the items are reconstructions of what they think it looked like.) The city around the palace was built in 7000 BCE. Layers upon layers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}