{"id":354,"date":"2011-08-11T11:07:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T09:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/08\/11\/kampa-island-2\/"},"modified":"2012-11-11T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T15:19:46","slug":"kampa-island-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/08\/11\/kampa-island-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kampa Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This morning I read again Karin&#8217;s account of our visit to Kampa Island. \u00a0Once again I was impressed with the quality of her photos, the appropriateness of her researched comments and with her evocative imagination. \u00a0She is a most excellent personal tour guide. \u00a0In relation to the caption of the last photo, I am indeed a lucky man.<\/div>\n<div><object width=\"400\" height=\"267\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;noautoplay=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fmichaelshepherdparos%2Falbumid%2F5433956271652236257%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I read again Karin&#8217;s account of our visit to Kampa Island. \u00a0Once again I was impressed with the quality of her photos, the appropriateness of her researched comments and with her evocative imagination. \u00a0She is a most excellent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/08\/11\/kampa-island-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[71,30,69,70],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MK34-5I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":213,"url":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2010\/10\/26\/a-mala-strana-sunday\/","url_meta":{"origin":354,"position":0},"title":"A Mala Strana Sunday","author":"Karin","date":"October 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mala Strana (started around 1257) is a district of Prague and the name means Lesser Town or Lesser Side.\u00a0 One can reach it by leaving Old Town and walking across Charles Bridge.\u00a0 Voila!\u00a0 You are there!\u00a0 Right below the Prague Castle!\u00a0Mala Strana is home to Kampa Island, Petrin Hill, Maltese\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Places&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Places","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/category\/places\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Infant-of-Prague-church-Karin-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":875,"url":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2013\/05\/05\/one-month-nuts-and-bolts-and-entertainment\/","url_meta":{"origin":354,"position":1},"title":"One Month:  Nuts and Bolts and Entertainment","author":"Michael","date":"May 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"We have been in our new Prague apartment for four weeks now and I have been\u00a0negligent\u00a0in posting, as\u00a0usual. \u00a0We have been on the go a lot but mostly to uninteresting places to shop for our apartment or ourselves. 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