{"id":3574,"date":"2000-04-01T20:08:06","date_gmt":"2000-04-02T03:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:38:48","slug":"training-to-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2000\/04\/01\/training-to-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"Training to Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-3574\">\n<p>The train to Firenza (Florence) was uneventful and very comfortable  (pay for    first class, its not that expensive and the seats are nicer). We  checked into    the Albergo Pensione Centrale, which was not as clean as we would like  and,    gasp, lacked a TV in the room! The bathroom was so tiny they put the  shower    head above and next to the toilet, so that taking a shower would get  the toilet    seat all wet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3575\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/AlbergoPensioneCentrale.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3575\" data-attachment-id=\"3575\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2000\/04\/01\/training-to-florence\/albergopensionecentrale\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/AlbergoPensioneCentrale.jpg?fit=264%2C129&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"264,129\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Albergo Pensione Centrale business card\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Albergo Pensione Centrale business card&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/AlbergoPensioneCentrale.jpg?fit=264%2C129&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3575\" title=\"Albergo Pensione Centrale business card\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/AlbergoPensioneCentrale.jpg?resize=264%2C129\" alt=\"Albergo Pensione Centrale business card\" width=\"264\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/AlbergoPensioneCentrale.jpg?w=264&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/AlbergoPensioneCentrale.jpg?resize=150%2C73&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albergo Pensione Centrale business card<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I caught Aviva&#8217;s cold today.<\/p>\n<p>I finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mask-Command-John-Keegan\/dp\/0140114068%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0140114068\" target=\"_blank\">The     Mask of Command<\/a> today; I would recommend it. The one paraphrase  I&#8217;d drop    is that leadership is: kinship, sanction (reward\/punishment), example,  prescription    (risk taking), and action (p. 345). I next started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Doors-Perception-Heaven-Hell-P-S\/dp\/0061729078%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0061729078\" target=\"_blank\">The     Doors of Perception\/Heaven and Hell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-3574\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 3574);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-3574\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-3574\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The train to Firenza (Florence) was uneventful and very comfortable (pay for first class, its not that expensive and the seats are nicer). We checked into the Albergo Pensione Centrale, which was not as clean as we would like and, gasp, lacked a TV in the room! The bathroom was so tiny they put the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[683],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-italy-2000"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-VE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179198,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/179198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}