{"id":2793,"date":"2014-10-24T09:08:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T22:46:06","slug":"thursday-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2793","title":{"rendered":"Thursday in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Thursday morning we went down to the Washington Monument to see if we could pick up any of the will call tickets that are distributed on a first-come-first-served basis every morning. We got there just a few minutes too late and they were all gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We walked over to the Air and Space Museum and spent a few hours there before heading east to take our Capital Building tour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"DSC03651.jpg\"<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We were unaware that the tour of the actual senate room was separate, so all we saw was the tomb and the main room (whatever it’s called), which had a huge white donut (for the renovation of the columns) covering up Washington’s mural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"DSC03664.jpg\"<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After leaving the capital we rushed to the Kennedy Center for our tour there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"DSC03675.jpg\"<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We didn’t get to see all the performance spaces and weren’t allowed to take pictures in the ones we did see. The upper balcony outside was also closed because of “high winds.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the tour, we ate dinner at Whole Foods in Georgetown and then walked south to visit the Lincoln Memorial, Reflecting Pool and World War II memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"DSC03688.jpg\"<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"DSC03713.jpg\"<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"DSC03719.jpg\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
“Forrest?!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"DSC03733.jpg\"<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday morning we went down to the Washington Monument to see if we could pick up any of the will call tickets that are distributed on a first-come-first-served basis every morning. We got there just a few minutes too late and they were all gone. We walked over to the Air and Space Museum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}