{"id":457,"date":"2010-12-03T14:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T18:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-12-03T14:47:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T18:47:35","slug":"postcards-to-the-core-from-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/12\/03\/postcards-to-the-core-from-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards to the Core: from Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/12\/postcard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-458\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/12\/postcard-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"postcard\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/12\/postcard-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/12\/postcard.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Core,<\/p>\n<p>Hola! I am on a mini-break from Paris, in Madrid right now, where I had the treat of spending the day in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prado\">Prado<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez\">Vel\u00e1zquez<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goya\">Goya<\/a> close up are really an experience. I never really \u201cgot\u201d the singular appeal of<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Las_Meninas\">Las meninas<\/a><\/em> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Second_of_May_1808\"><em>The 2nd of May<\/em><\/a> until I was there, in the room with them. You can\u2019t look away! I also have to thank you for the awesome education. It is almost exclusively thanks to the Core that I have the Humanities\/Social Science background that French students seem to have as second nature. Core\u2019s the best!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I hope you all are doing well, and that things are good in Boston with the new corelings!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/profile.php?id=1576800001\">Logan Gowdey<\/a> (Core &#8217;10, CAS &#8217;12)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Core, Hola! I am on a mini-break from Paris, in Madrid right now, where I had the treat of spending the day in the Prado. Vel\u00e1zquez and Goya close up are really an experience. I never really \u201cgot\u201d the singular appeal of Las meninas or The 2nd of May until I was there, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4308],"tags":[48731,48727,3831,4312,3832,4310,4309,4311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}