{"id":11360,"date":"2019-05-13T21:56:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2019-05-29T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:04:01","slug":"daily_1598_-_jewish_prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/daily_1598_-_jewish_prague\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1598 &#8211; Jewish Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1598_Jewish_Prague_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nToday we flew back from Prague. But the flight for Stockholm didn&#8217;t leave until mid-afternoon, so I had a whole free morning to spend in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>I considered the Alphonse Mucha museum, which was just a stone&#8217;s throw from our hotel, but wasn&#8217;t in the mood for Mucha. Instead I visited the Jewish sights of Prague. The synagogues, just like the churches, all charged for entrance, but at least here I could pay once and get a single ticket for all the sights.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1598_Jewish_Prague_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe old Jewish cemetery was beautiful but also sad in its abandonment, in a way that I haven&#8217;t felt about any other cemetery I&#8217;ve been to.<\/p>\n<p>The Pinkas Synagogue, a memorial to the tens of thousands of Jews from Czechoslovakia who were killed in the Holocaust, was serene and peaceful but even sadder.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Synagogue on the other hand was strikingly beautiful, and if I hadn&#8217;t had a flight to catch, I would have stayed there a lot longer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1598_Jewish_Prague_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we flew back from Prague. But the flight for Stockholm didn&#8217;t leave until mid-afternoon, so I had a whole free morning to spend in Prague. I considered the Alphonse Mucha museum, which was just a stone&#8217;s throw from our hotel, but wasn&#8217;t in the mood for Mucha. Instead I visited the Jewish sights of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11363,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}