{"id":487,"date":"2008-03-03T23:21:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T07:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=487"},"modified":"2008-03-05T06:08:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T14:08:18","slug":"charlotte-amalie-st-thomas-usvi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte-Amalie &#8211; St. Thomas, USVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce says<\/p>\n<p>Sam Stone #3 &#8211; Charlotte-Amalie, St. Thomas, USVI<\/p>\n<p>On our way home, we spent a day in Charlotte-Amalie.  The<br \/>\narchitecture there is very old European style.  As I walked into the<br \/>\ncourtyard of our hotel, I looked around and felt like I had been<br \/>\nmagically transported to Spain in the 1800&#8217;s.  Well, except for the<br \/>\nPepsi machine on the right, which I did my best to pretend wasn&#8217;t<br \/>\nthere.  This place was just stunning.  The photo can&#8217;t possibly do it justice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image484\" alt=\"2936b09.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2936b09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\" \/>Here&#8217;s another shot, taken through the window in our hotel room<br \/>\ndoor.  This window contains neither screen nor glass, and needs neither.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2936be3.jpg\" id=\"image480\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2936be3.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The courtyard was filled with large potted plants, many of which<br \/>\nsported large colorful blooms.  All of them had a layer of off-white<br \/>\nstones on top of the soil.  One of them now sports a Sam Stone, which<br \/>\nblends right in.  When I was preparing to take what would have been<br \/>\nthe last photo of the trip (we were leaving for the airport to catch<br \/>\nour plane home), I pressed the button, and the camera said &#8220;Out Of<br \/>\nMemory&#8221;.  Dang!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce says Sam Stone #3 &#8211; Charlotte-Amalie, St. Thomas, USVI On our way home, we spent a day in Charlotte-Amalie. The architecture there is very old European style. As I walked into the courtyard of our hotel, I looked around and felt like I had been magically transported to Spain in the 1800&#8217;s. Well, except [&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-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":18.3404598,"longitude":-64.9325638,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}