{"id":571,"date":"2017-09-28T12:47:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2017-10-02T03:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T07:48:11","slug":"jaipur-city-palace-and-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"Jaipur &#8211; City Palace and Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adjacent to the observatory is the City Palace and museum. The architecture is similar to much of the other buildings we have seen. The work is impressive; beautiful colors, arches and courtyards. The eighteen year old king lives here and the flag was up indicating he was home. We didn&#8217;t get to visit with him. Apparently he is quite shy.<\/p>\n<p>The museum holds a collection of royal costumes, shawls and other objects. Most surprising is clothing from one king (Sa wai Madho Singh) who Mansi describes as &#8220;four feet wide&#8221;. The guidebook lists his weight as 250 kg which is almost 600 pounds. He was said to be seven feet tall and four feet wide and didn&#8217;t contribute much it anything to India.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/p1110650.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/p1110648.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/p1110654.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/p1110653.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjacent to the observatory is the City Palace and museum. The architecture is similar to much of the other buildings we have seen. The work is impressive; beautiful colors, arches and courtyards. The eighteen year old king lives here and the flag was up indicating he was home. We didn&#8217;t get to visit with him. Apparently he is quite shy.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=571\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}