{"id":2048,"date":"2008-10-11T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T18:25:04","slug":"paris-saturday-11-october-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=2048","title":{"rendered":"Paris, Saturday, 11 October 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a late start today, we kept waiting for the church bells but they were delayed on Saturday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike slipped out and visited the bakery for croissants. After breakfast, we hopped the Metro for St-Michel to visit Notre Dame.\u00c2\u00a0 We walked around Cite, caught Flower Market, Pont Neuf, and then on to Monmartre where Karen and I visited fabric and trim stores around the butte.\u00c2\u00a0 We got some fabulous ideas, saw great fabrics and exquisite trims, and, as always, wished I would sew more. Mike was very patient, and ultimately, we headed back to the apartment for snacks and wine to escape the frantic crowds.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo Flower Market, Paris, France\" src=\"http:\/\/sydneyventuresllc.com\/vac\/france2008\/Images\/flower_market.gif\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flower Market<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo tassels\" src=\"http:\/\/sydneyventuresllc.com\/vac\/france2008\/Images\/tassels_Monmartre.gif\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tassel shop in Monmartre<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo Notre Dame\" src=\"http:\/\/sydneyventuresllc.com\/vac\/france2008\/Images\/n-d.gif\" width=\"225\" height=\"294\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notre Dame<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dinner tonight would be a rotisserie chicken and potatoes from the butcher around the corner.\u00c2\u00a0 I slipped down after snacks and reserved a chicken with the butcher \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in French as he spoke flawless English back to me.\u00c2\u00a0 He told me to come back in ten minutes and it would be ready. Just after we reserved our poulet, a man came in and reserved two and there were only three on the spit! Timing is everything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a late start today, we kept waiting for the church bells but they were delayed on Saturday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike slipped out and visited the bakery for croissants. After breakfast, we hopped the Metro for St-Michel to visit Notre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/?p=2048\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[674,673,127,675,672],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flower-market","tag-monmartre","tag-notre-dame","tag-pont-neuf","tag-rotisserie-chicken-and-potatoes-from-the-butcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchbychoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}