{"id":6070,"date":"2009-07-04T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/04\/the-pontine-islands\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:18:00","slug":"the-pontine-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/04\/the-pontine-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pontine Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjCtFu2lkCJR5MQYnbmXhmoUXjV7my6rod4oViWfABILd_Y9a2vnVlmoJQqp6vyr6jXmxo9mfz6KxrJmxrs23aLK_8BbXSg-98JgF5IH48nr2HZdRevUdD8A1tvgCj9yPQtTZbyWKt5nOc\/s1600-h\/Pontine_Islands_map.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 247px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Pontine_Islands_map.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354474469803672898\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We were out on Ponza island this week. Amazing place. Part of the Pontine Island group. Brave Ulysses was an earlier visitor. Roman emperors used it as a summer place. It is only about 33 km from the mainland and you can get there from Anzio in about one hour by fast hydrofoil. We took a small boat over to the beautiful island of Palmarola. I did a bit of shortwave listening. More about this trip in the next SolderSmoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were out on Ponza island this week. Amazing place. Part of the Pontine Island group. Brave Ulysses was an earlier visitor. Roman emperors used it as a summer place. It is only about 33 km from the mainland and you can get there from Anzio in about one hour by fast hydrofoil. We took &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/04\/the-pontine-islands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Pontine Islands&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6072,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}