{"id":65892,"date":"2024-08-12T01:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T05:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=65892"},"modified":"2024-07-06T14:47:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:47:49","slug":"a-week-in-paris-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2024\/08\/12\/a-week-in-paris-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week in Paris&#8211; Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The water lily pond at Monet\u2019s Giverny home is of course the center of the garden and the center of attention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240627_150408-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65895\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240627_150408-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240627_150717-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65898\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240627_150717-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240627_150620-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65901\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240627_150620-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_145752-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65946\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_145752-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But by no means are water lilies all there is to this garden, for example,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_135541-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65916\" 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wp-image-65931\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_133428.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_150032.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65934\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_150032.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_135209.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65937\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_135209.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_133323.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65940\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_133323.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_135237-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65943\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_135237-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_133357.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65949\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_133357.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_121534.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65952\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_121534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_150045.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65955\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240627_150045.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><a 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