{"id":8475,"date":"2026-02-23T03:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8475"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:54:53","slug":"olympic-closing-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8475","title":{"rendered":"OLYMPIC CLOSING CEREMONY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Watching the closure of the Winter Olympics 2026 on TV, I was surprised to see that the ceremonies were coming from the ancient Roman coliseum in Verona.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-2-1024x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-2-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-2-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-2-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-2-1536x841.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-2-2048x1121.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oddly enough, I visited the amphitheatre just a few years ago prior to an Adriatic cruise from Venice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thanks to preparations for a concert within the amphitheatre at the time,  the internal scene was too cluttered for a photograph of the interior. Better luck next time!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Verona-Amphitheatre-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Coliseum Exterior<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the closure of the Winter Olympics 2026 on TV, I was surprised to see that the ceremonies were coming from the ancient Roman coliseum in Verona. Oddly enough, I visited the amphitheatre just a few years ago prior to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-people","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8482,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions\/8482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}