{"id":5613,"date":"2014-06-25T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:07:19","slug":"the-learning-experience-continues-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/the-learning-experience-continues-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"The learning experience continues in Italy! by Austin Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5614 alignright\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 18px\" alt=\"IMG_0362\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0362-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>We got up early so we could get a good spot to see Pope Francis (or as the Italians say, Papa Francesco) when he gave a speech. It was pretty awesome when the Pope came around on a cart and I was only about 10-5 (I think) yards away. There were people handing babies to the pope\u2019s guards, who relayed them to the pope then back to the hands of their parents, grandparents, or whatever type of legal guardian they might have been.<\/p>\n<p>Later, we went to see the US Embassy to the Holy See. Despite it being a lower risk embassy, the security was a bit more than a US airport. It\u2019s not surprising since the US likes to keep everything behind barriers, guards, and scanners. I suppose it\u2019s as the saying goes, It is better to be safe than sorry.<\/p>\n<p>We walked around the area for a while and walked over to the <i>Circus Maximum <\/i>(which is right next to the embassy) where the Rolling Stones had preformed some time within the last week.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5615\" alt=\"IMG_0381\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_0381-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got up early so we could get a good spot to see Pope Francis (or as the Italians say, Papa Francesco) when he gave a speech. It was pretty awesome when the Pope came around on a cart and I was only about 10-5 (I think) yards away. There were people handing babies to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/the-learning-experience-continues-in-italy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The learning experience continues in Italy! by Austin Hart<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":5614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-study-abroad","category-italy-2021","tag-italy-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9311,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions\/9311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}