{"id":155,"date":"2007-03-13T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T19:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=155"},"modified":"2007-03-14T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T19:50:03","slug":"an-autre-grenoble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"an autre Grenoble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Too late for my first house guests, I went on a tour of \u0093another Grenoble\u0094 today and learned a lot about our adopted, temporary home.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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I saw where the rampart built around the original city by the Romans is still marked on the ground. And heard where to go if I want to actually see part of the wall. Grenoble was apparently very important to the Roman Empire, because it was the gateway from the south of France to Italy.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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I saw the first street built outside the wall. I saw the oldest house in Grenoble.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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I saw other old houses… many I’d walked past or even shopped in the stores on the ground floor without paying any attention to the amazing detail. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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One has giant wooden doors with carvings around the door knockers that look like a cross between a man and a lion. And the door knockers are very high off the ground… so you can knock on the door without getting off your horse.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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I also learned about the cathedral… and the battle between the bishop and the dauphin over who had the tallest cathedral. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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I stood on a suspension bridge over the Isere river; that I didn’t like because you could feel it moving. The guide also told us about how dangerous the Isere is… how it’s named after a word for snake… and how important it was for Grenoble to finally feel like it had \u0093tamed\u0094 the waters.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Now I have just enough knowledge to really drive my next house guests crazy! <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too late for my first house guests, I went on a tour of \u0093another Grenoble\u0094 today and learned a lot about our adopted, temporary home. I saw where the rampart built around the original city by the Romans is still marked on the ground. And heard where to go if I want to actually see […]<\/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-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}