{"id":393,"date":"2010-05-17T21:44:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2013-10-16T21:50:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T21:50:27","slug":"may-17-2010-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"May 17, 2010   Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>We took the tunnel from the Library of Congress to the Capitol Visitor\u2019s Center for a private tour of the Capitol with Senator Harkin\u2019s aide. It was nice to bypass the lines and actually be able to hear what the guide was saying. I highly recommend contacting your Congressman for a tour as opposed to a group tour. We listened to the Senate debate the Greece economic bailout for a while and the President of Mexico walked past us.<\/p>\n<p>We spent the rest of our day at the Air and Space Museum, which was open until 7pm tonight. It was fairly quiet and we had a lot of exhibits to ourselves. The museum was fun, the exhibits were easy to follow, and the displays covered everything from the Wright Brothers to the Space Shuttle.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Capitol1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Capitol1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dome of US Capitol<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Capitol4\" alt=\"US Capitol\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Capitol4.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Capitol<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Capitol3\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Capitol3.jpg\" width=\"502\" height=\"751\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">United States Capitol<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"AirSpace\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/AirSpace.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air and Space Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Capitol2\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Capitol2.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"751\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took the tunnel from the Library of Congress to the Capitol Visitor\u2019s Center for a private tour of the Capitol with Senator Harkin\u2019s aide. It was nice to bypass the lines and actually be able to hear what the guide was saying. I highly recommend contacting your Congressman for a tour as opposed to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=393\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bos_mb_destination":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}