{"id":782,"date":"2013-05-17T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/village-of-gourdon\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:50:14","slug":"village-of-gourdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/village-of-gourdon\/","title":{"rendered":"Village of Gourdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The village of Gourdon comes up in the prologue to the novel. &nbsp;So that you can visualize better what&#8217;s being discussed, as well as visualize the area, I am attaching two pictures of the village of Gourdon.<br \/>Gourdon is a beautiful little village, perched on top of a promontory in the middle of the Pre-Maritime Alps. &nbsp;As you travel the road toward it, you don&#8217;t know it&#8217;s there until you come out of the forest and, bam, there it is. &nbsp;The first picture shows you how it looks as you turn out of the forested road.<br \/>The second picture is an eagle&#8217;s eye view of the village where the hiking trail going down the mountain is shown.<br \/>If you are ever visiting the area, you really need to go there.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-p1bh7I8i6qg\/UZYpYHezrPI\/AAAAAAAAADQ\/fdSaZMDwSas\/s1600\/Village_of_Gourdon.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Village_of_Gourdon.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-TlfqETONIEg\/UZYpcWVNQ4I\/AAAAAAAAADY\/rgNdUORSB2g\/s1600\/Gourdon+path.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Gourdonpath.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The village of Gourdon comes up in the prologue to the novel. &nbsp;So that you can visualize better what&#8217;s being discussed, as well as visualize the area, I am attaching two pictures of the village of Gourdon.Gourdon is a beautiful little village, perched on top of a promontory in the middle of the Pre-Maritime Alps. &#8230; <a title=\"Village of Gourdon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/village-of-gourdon\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Village of Gourdon\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-pics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}