{"id":9164,"date":"2023-03-03T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9164"},"modified":"2023-12-17T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:38:41","slug":"worth-the-wait-part-4-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/worth-the-wait-part-4-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth the Wait Part 4: Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Next stop: a very rainy Croatia!<\/p>\n

In an attempt to stay dry, we hit up a grocery store in Vukovar and raided the snack aisle. Unfamiliar foods make great holiday gifts, just ask our family!<\/p>\n

We visited Osijek Fortress, and walked around the old town where many buildings have bullet damage from the war in the 1990s. It was a sobering reminder of the current atrocities in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

It was very interesting and educational to experience this different side of Croatia (literally). Previously, we’ve been to Dubrovnik and Split<\/a>, which are full of palm trees and Adriatic zephyrs. We did see some bullet holes on that trip too, though.<\/p>\n

To end on a lighter note, we met an orange chonker of a cat named Garfield. He was very sweet.<\/p>\n

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Sexxy church dude, pagan-looking straw rabbits and dragon, the scariest doorway in Croatia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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war memorial in Vukovar, bullet damage in Osijek, Vukovar plaza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Osijek sports complex, Osijek window detail, Osijek Fortress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next stop: a very rainy Croatia! In an attempt to stay dry, we hit up a grocery store in Vukovar and raided the snack aisle. Unfamiliar foods make great holiday gifts, just ask our family! We visited Osijek Fortress, and walked around the old town where many buildings have bullet damage from the war in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,326],"tags":[426,564],"class_list":["post-9164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-road-trip","tag-travelogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9222,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}