{"id":1120,"date":"2009-10-12T06:04:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:48","slug":"lessons-from-italy-part-6-friday-october-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/lessons-from-italy-part-6-friday-october-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From Italy Part 6 &#8211; Friday October 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/img_0428-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0428\" title=\"img_0428\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1121\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/img_0428-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/img_0428-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Don&#8217;t take anything for granted.  The roommate and I spent the morning asking directions to a Venetian Internet Cafe.  Directions in Venice sound like this: Go straight, walk over three bridges, go about 40 meters after that.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe problem is that no street is straight for longer than one block, and there are bridges everywhere.  And I don&#8217;t really know what a meter is.  But we were undeterred by the rain, and eventually our trusty iPhones got us to the right spot.  I breathed a huge sigh of relief, then noticed this sign:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Internet No Work Today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So I sneaked into a fancy hotel and used their business center.  Because in Italy you always have to have a back up plan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t take anything for granted. The roommate and I spent the morning asking directions to a Venetian Internet Cafe. Directions in Venice sound like this: Go straight, walk over three bridges, go about 40 meters after that. &nbsp; The problem is that no street is straight for longer than one block, and there are bridges &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/lessons-from-italy-part-6-friday-october-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lessons From Italy Part 6 &#8211; Friday October 9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}