{"id":848,"date":"2009-03-11T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=848"},"modified":"2010-01-11T23:47:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:47:49","slug":"more-secrets-of-the-vatican-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/03\/more-secrets-of-the-vatican-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"More Secrets of the Vatican Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to Bodgieman for <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/02\/secrets-of-vatican.html#comments\">his comments<\/a> on touring the Vatican; in particular, for his reminiscence of the time he &#8220;stole a brown plastic coffee cup from the restaurant \/bar on top of the dome at St Peters&#8221;.  The most shocking thing about this revelation is that there&#8217;s a restaurant hidden away in the top of St Peters.  I had no idea.  It sounds like the sort of thing the British would do in St Pauls.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I haven&#8217;t been inside St Pauls yet, because I hear they charge admission.   Mind you, they charge admission to go up in the dome of St Peters, which is why I didn&#8217;t find out if there really is a bar up there.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the plus side, the toilets at St Pauls are free, although they use a cheap type of toilet paper you can see your reflection in.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bodgieman also accurately notes that &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t like tv at all where there is commentator and no-one else&#8221;.  Actually, every time I watch one of those programs where some historian is happily flitting about the Sistine Chapel all to himself, I wonder about all the pissed-off tourists outside who took their one chance to see the place only to discover it&#8217;s closed for filming a poncey TV show.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes, the presenter and camera crew aren&#8217;t quite so alone as they would like you to think.  I&#8217;ve already mentioned the time <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/05\/centres-of-tradition.html\">my visit to the Tate was thwarted<\/a> by a TV crew butting in every time I&#8217;d found a nice painting to contemplate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Bodgieman for his comments on touring the Vatican; in particular, for his reminiscence of the time he &#8220;stole a brown plastic coffee cup from the restaurant \/bar on top of the dome at St Peters&#8221;. The most shocking thing about this revelation is that there&#8217;s a restaurant hidden away in the top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}