{"id":512,"date":"2014-10-06T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=512"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:42:10","slug":"20-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2014\/10\/06\/20-days-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Days and Counting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks my twentieth day here in London. \u00a0So for my second ever blog post I decided to re-live a few of my favorite touristing (yes, it&#8217;s a new verb) moments. \u00a0First and probably the most prestigious is Buckingham Palace (image 1). \u00a0Two of my friends and I discovered the self-guided audio tour of the majestic palace and absolutely LOVED it. \u00a0It was so hard to imagine the actual age of the palace itself (over 150 years), but that real live people actually live there. \u00a0The architecture, detail, and &#8220;livability&#8221; of the place was spectacular. \u00a0I especially loved the statue in the front where my friend Allison and I climbed up just to pose for one of our classic &#8220;funny&#8221; pictures! (image 2) \u00a0The second amazing tourist place I went to was the Houses of Parliament (image 3). \u00a0One hall of the building is 900 years old, which one of my British friends likes to remind me, is almost four times the age of the United States of America itself. \u00a0Although my tour guide spent a long time explaining how the government works, which of course is foreign to me, I genuinely enjoyed exploring another nation&#8217;s place of power. \u00a0It&#8217;s amazing how much I&#8217;ve learned about our own government, yet I have never taken the time to go on a Capitol building tour. \u00a0This tour inspired me to put that on my &#8220;to-do&#8221; list when I get home. \u00a0My third and final spot that I absolutely loved was The Globe (image 4). \u00a0The hype and almost insanity surrounding it was completely worth it. \u00a0I was given a &#8220;free&#8221; ticket from my Shakespeare literature class to go see the play we will begin discussing this week, Julius Caesar, and I loved it. \u00a0I had never read the play until a few days before and I had never seen it performed and I just fell in love with it. \u00a0The atmosphere standing in the yard for almost three hours for the play really felt like a throw back to Elizabethan times. \u00a0The actors really brought the play to life and did a tremendous job with interpreting it. \u00a0I look forward to going back there and hopefully I will blog about it again!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10610941_4693822921768_3769609885317682903_n-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18230 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10610941_4693822921768_3769609885317682903_n-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3714-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18231 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3714-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3920-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18232 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_3920-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SAM_0520-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18233 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SAM_0520-300x200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks my twentieth day here in London. \u00a0So for my second ever blog post I decided to re-live a few of my favorite touristing (yes, it&#8217;s a new verb) moments. \u00a0First and probably the most prestigious is Buckingham Palace (image 1). \u00a0Two of my friends and I discovered the self-guided audio tour of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qmul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","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\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18234,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/18234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}