{"id":47,"date":"2008-08-05T20:16:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T02:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2022-02-15T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:10:50","slug":"the-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"The Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we got back from the Hearst Castle tour at about 4:00 PM.\u00a0 It was just up the road, and we went to the 10:00 Tour #1, had lunch, then went to the 2:00 Tour #2. It&#8217;s a castle made mostly of reinforced concrete dressed up with stone and imported works in a Spanish\/Mediterranean style. The scale of the facility is of course large, but the really impressive thing about the place is the collection of the valuable antiquities that have been collected and displayed. 5000 year old egyptian statues, Greek marble statues, Roman tile mosaics, old ceilings and woodwork from Spain, it&#8217;s all pretty amazing.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a small sampling of all of the photos we took, along with a video at the indoor pool.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-47 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=68'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/outdoor-pool-right-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=67'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/outdoor-pool-above-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=66'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ceiling-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=63'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/i-see-you-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=60'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/guest-room-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=59'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/guest-room-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=58'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/guest-room-1-ceiling-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=65'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/library-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=62'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/hearst-study-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=49'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bible-stories-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=61'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/hearst-room-ceiling-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=70'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/tower-bed-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?attachment_id=64'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/indoor-pool-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/hearst-indoor-pool.wmv\">Indoor Pool<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we got back from the Hearst Castle tour at about 4:00 PM.\u00a0 It was just up the road, and we went to the 10:00 Tour #1, had lunch, then went to the 2:00 Tour #2. 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