{"id":1122,"date":"2015-04-21T08:47:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2019-07-25T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T15:29:17","slug":"spring-in-london-about-bloody-time-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/04\/21\/spring-in-london-about-bloody-time-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring in London, about bloody time &#8211; April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok excuse my French in the title. It is a bit more naughty to say &#8220;bloody&#8221; here, quite a thrill actually.<\/p>\n<p>Before I get into how sad I am to leave (yawn), I have to tell you, dear readers of America, I had the absolute pleasure of seeing the INCREDIBLE Emma Thompson and the MAGNIFICENT Bryn Terfel in the MINDBLOWING West End production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I had front row tickets too, Seat A2. It was one of the most amazing theatrical experiences I have ever had. The run has ended here now, but this production will undoubtedly resurface so I don&#8217;t want to spoil what made it incredible or the twists and adaptations that were so amusing and nuanced but it was a refreshing rebirth of an older Sondheim musical.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to sound clich\u00e9 but I&#8217;ve made a lot of friends from going out in Soho on Saturdays and hanging out with British people I&#8217;ve met in the craziest places: Sainsbury&#8217;s, on the train, Pret \u00e0 Manger. Especially a friend group that enveloped me on one of my first nights out and has been lovely to me. I finally know everyone&#8217;s names and finally feel like part of their group and I&#8217;m leaving. I feel as if it&#8217;s been the perfect amount of time here, just enough for me to get used to London and just before I started to really, badly miss home. However, I don&#8217;t like the idea of leaving these people I&#8217;ve just become close to. And yet, such is life. Distance sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok excuse my French in the title. It is a bit more naughty to say &#8220;bloody&#8221; here, quite a thrill actually. Before I get into how sad I am to leave (yawn), I have to tell you, dear readers of America, I had the absolute pleasure of seeing the INCREDIBLE Emma Thompson and the MAGNIFICENT&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17981,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/17981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}