{"id":169,"date":"2007-01-27T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/about-paris\/"},"modified":"2022-12-11T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T14:06:24","slug":"about-paris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/about-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first traveled to Paris in 1971 for two weeks between stints in London, Spain, southern France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. I traveled to Paris again for a week in 1975, for a day in 1978, for three weeks in 2002, eight weeks in 2007, and then five weeks in 2013. I will likely go again.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_762\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-762\" class=\"wp-image-762 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/After-the-Louvre-unframed-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"After the Louvre, unframed 1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/After-the-Louvre-unframed-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/After-the-Louvre-unframed-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/After-the-Louvre-unframed-1.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>After the Louvre<\/em>, acrylic on canvas, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On my 2007 trip to the French capital, I wrote daily journal entries, which are at\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/\">https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/<\/a> I then compiled and revised those blogs into a spiral-bound book, <em>An Introvert in Paris<\/em>: <em>Tips, Lists<\/em>\u00a0<em>and Essays<\/em><em>\u00c2\u00a0for the Quiet Traveler<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I do not speak French beyond ordering <em>cafe cremes<\/em> and <em>pains du chocolat<\/em>, but the art and atmosphere fill my soul every time. If someone mentions to me that they would like to go to Paris &#8220;someday&#8221; but then begin listing the reasons they can&#8217;t, I usually reply, &#8220;Just <em>go<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first traveled to Paris in 1971 for two weeks between stints in London, Spain, southern France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. I traveled to Paris again for a week in 1975, for a day in 1978, for three weeks in 2002, eight weeks in 2007, and then five weeks in 2013. I will likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}