{"id":764,"date":"2013-06-12T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/old-europe-elevators\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:49:55","slug":"old-europe-elevators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/12\/old-europe-elevators\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Europe Elevators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have asked me if the scene in chapter two, with Richard being cramped in the elevator, is real&#8230;<br \/><a name='more'><\/a>When my character describes the following: &nbsp;&#8220;A spiral staircase encircled an old elevator encased in an intricate, handcrafted iron grille, painted a soft white. &nbsp;Richard opened the glass door and squeezed into the small space sideways, his body almost filling the entire elevator. &nbsp;He sighed. &nbsp;Remnants of old Europe were a bit on the small side for him. &nbsp;He got out on the second floor, thinking he would take the stairs next time,&#8221; he is correct. &nbsp;Older buildings in Nice have extremely small elevators. &nbsp;Some can&#8217;t hold more than two people at a time. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve been in quite a few of them throughout France.<\/p>\n<p>The attached photograph is an elevator similar to what I described in this scene.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2ExWPQNe6EE\/UbiYtCPJVKI\/AAAAAAAAAJc\/9SwM2JlBSCI\/s1600\/elevator.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/elevator.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Similar elevator I describe in the scene in chapter two of novel. &nbsp;The actual elevator space is the middle door.&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have asked me if the scene in chapter two, with Richard being cramped in the elevator, is real&#8230;When my character describes the following: &nbsp;&#8220;A spiral staircase encircled an old elevator encased in an intricate, handcrafted iron grille, painted a soft white. &nbsp;Richard opened the glass door and squeezed into the small space sideways, &#8230; <a title=\"Old Europe Elevators\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/12\/old-europe-elevators\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Old Europe Elevators\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-your-regular-info","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}