{"id":2689,"date":"2015-10-01T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2019-07-24T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:23:31","slug":"rome-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/10\/01\/rome-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I enter mid-September here abroad in Rome, every expectation I had coming into this experience has already been long surpassed and then some. Admittedly I have found myself homesick to some extent at times, but I cannot express into words how much I have appreciated this opportunity given to me. Back home walking around the streets meant the most impressive thing I&#8217;d see would be a decent restaurant or something. Here in Rome, stumbling upon ancient buildings such as the Coliseum and more seem to be casual at this point, and to someone who hasn&#8217;t experienced such moments like so, this must sound absurd.&nbsp; In fact, my roommates and I felt obligated that same night after witnessing the Coliseum in person to watch the Gladiator movie right after our tour.&nbsp; To some degree my roommates and I have already set up a solid routine for our days; having the same class schedules makes that much easier.&nbsp; Getting up early practically each weekday, going to classes until midafternoon, which I will touch on as classes develop more in a later blog, going to the gym and then usually cooking a communal dinner, I would say that things are looking pretty bright for my stay here in Rome. Until next time, grazie e ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I enter mid-September here abroad in Rome, every expectation I had coming into this experience has already been long surpassed and then some. Admittedly I have found myself homesick to some extent at times, but I cannot express into words how much I have appreciated this opportunity given to me. Back home walking around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isarome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","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\/412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17325,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/17325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}