{"id":149,"date":"2011-10-12T14:24:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/?p=149"},"modified":"2011-10-12T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:24:29","slug":"positano-italy-first-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/2011\/10\/positano-italy-first-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Positano Italy &#8211; First stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving at Naples airport is a convenient port of entry for visiting the Amalfi Coast.\u00a0 Our private driver Alfonso navigated with the ease of a local and gave us an education of the land keeping us awake to enjoy the beautiful scenery.\u00a0 The views are amazing and much easier to enjoy when you have someone else driving the winding roads with switchback turns. \u00a0The hillsides are covered with sheer rocks and terraced lemon and olive groves.\u00a0 It is the season for harvesting olives and we could see the setting of nets below the trees.\u00a0 Alfonzo said the picking is still done by hand and the window of time is only 10 hours from picking to crushing to get the best extra virgin oil.\u00a0 The weather is amazing and the warmest it has been in October for 125 years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_0984-copy1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155\" title=\"View of Positano on the Amalfi Coast\" src=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_0984-copy1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_0984-copy1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_0984-copy1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Positano on the Amalfi Coast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving at Naples airport is a convenient port of entry for visiting the Amalfi Coast.\u00a0 Our private driver Alfonso navigated with the ease of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}