{"id":401,"date":"2007-11-09T09:31:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=401"},"modified":"2007-11-09T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T17:31:54","slug":"florence-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Florence &#8211; Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gretchen wrote:<br \/>\n> >Dear <Diane and <john,\n> I went to the L&#8217;accamedia today, home of <michelangelo's great statue of\n> David. Also has <michelangelo's \"4 Prisoners\" and many other paintings and\n> sculptures.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> <i was sitting in a small garden in the museum when a group of small\n> schoolchildren went by with their teachers, all chattering in Italian. I<br \/>\n> got down on one knee and gave them a Samstone&#8230; was able to communicate<br \/>\n> to them its meaning.\u00a0 The teachers and the kids were very excited and<br \/>\n> touched.\u00a0 They had many questions.\u00a0 While we were talking in<br \/>\n> English\/Italian\/sign language one of the fathers got onto the Samstone<br \/>\n> website on his blackberry and There were your faces!\u00a0 The kids went away<br \/>\n> with the stone, a story, and I&#8217;m sure they will follow up.\u00a0 Very special<br \/>\n> moment just a few feet from the &#8220;David.&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> Thought you and Sam would enjoy the story.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> Love,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gretchen wrote: > >Dear sculptures. > > schoolchildren went by with their teachers, all chattering in Italian. I > got down on one knee and gave them a Samstone&#8230; was able to communicate > to them its meaning.\u00a0 The teachers and the kids were very excited and > touched.\u00a0 They had many questions.\u00a0 While we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":43.7628174,"longitude":11.264677,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}