{"id":3527,"date":"2015-11-22T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2019-07-22T17:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T17:16:51","slug":"queen-mary-blog-6-reading-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/11\/22\/queen-mary-blog-6-reading-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Mary Blog #6 Reading week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Mary University holds a reading week once every semester. During this week, there were no classes which gave me an opportunity to travel. I went to Amsterdam, Netherlands. The first thing I noticed in Amsterdam was the architecture. The main train station in Amsterdam was grandiose like a museum. It seemed as though most of the buildings have stood in the same place for hundreds of years. The city\u00a0was very nice and clean. The city seemed to be compressed into a small space with all kinds of people grouped together. It was a very touristy region. Many of the streets had canals between them which allowed boats to easily access between streets. I also noticed many bikes. It seemed as though biking was a more popular mode of transportation than driving a car. This makes sense since the streets were so narrow and there were many people in the area. I was able to visit some landmarks. The Basilica of St.Nicholas was a catholic church that stood out in the city. I took a stroll through the Vondelpark which is the largest park in Amsterdam. I was also able to visit the\u00a0Van Gogh museum which was home to many famous Van Gogh artwork including his &#8216;Self Portrait&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4628-300x65.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16977 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4628-300x65-300x65.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4633-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16978 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4633-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4636-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16979 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4636-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Mary University holds a reading week once every semester. During this week, there were no classes which gave me an opportunity to travel. I went to Amsterdam, Netherlands. The first thing I noticed in Amsterdam was the architecture. The main train station in Amsterdam was grandiose like a museum. It seemed as though most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qmul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","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\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16980,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/16980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}