{"id":4830,"date":"2016-07-17T17:41:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2016-07-17T17:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T21:47:40","slug":"postcards-to-the-core-from-london-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2016\/07\/17\/postcards-to-the-core-from-london-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards to the Core: From London, July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2016\/07\/nelson-fron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2016\/07\/nelson-fron-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"nelson-fron\" width=\"249\" height=\"341\" class=\"  wp-image-4831 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2016\/07\/nelson-fron-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2016\/07\/nelson-fron-745x1024.jpg 745w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2016\/07\/nelson-fron.jpg 1380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our latest postcard comes to CAS 119 from the North End &#8212; for you see, Prof. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/about\/people\/stephanie-nelson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Nelson<\/a> <em><strong>had<\/strong> <\/em>been in London, <em><strong>had<\/strong><\/em> visited the National Portrait Gallery there, but didn&#8217;t get the chance to find a post box and drop the memento postcard she bought for us into the mail before she had to board her plane back to Boston. So, our London postcard originates locally. Even so, what a pleasure to see the fine visage of the original Lord Nelson gazing nobly out of his portrait from the front of the card. Prof. Nelson\u00a0writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2016\/07\/nlson-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2016\/07\/nlson-2-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"nlson-2\" width=\"216\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2016\/07\/nlson-2-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2016\/07\/nlson-2-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2016\/07\/nlson-2.jpg 1896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greetings Core!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hand carried from the National Portrait Gallery all the way to the North End &#8212; finally the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">real<\/span> Lord Nelson. See you all very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nStephanie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The art, to be specific, shows a\u00a0portrait of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson\" target=\"_blank\">Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bront\u00e9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_the_Bath\" target=\"_blank\">KB<\/a> (1758-1805), painted by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Beechey\" target=\"_blank\">Sir William Beechey<\/a> in 1800, oil on canvas. On display in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London\" target=\"_blank\">National Portrait Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Core <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em><strong>loves<\/strong><\/em><\/span> postcards. Whether you\u2019re at home or abroad now, we\u2019d love to get one from you. Our address is easy: Core Curriculum, Boston University, Boston MA 02215.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest postcard comes to CAS 119 from the North End &#8212; for you see, Prof. Stephanie Nelson had been in London, had visited the National Portrait Gallery there, but didn&#8217;t get the chance to find a post box and drop the memento postcard she bought for us into the mail before she had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[48729,283,649,48665,5027,4309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830"}],"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\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4834,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}