{"id":5690,"date":"2014-07-15T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2017-09-29T19:19:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T23:19:34","slug":"postcards-to-the-core-from-florence-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2014\/07\/15\/postcards-to-the-core-from-florence-july-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards to the Core: from Florence, July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2017\/09\/sims-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2017\/09\/sims-front-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"sims-front\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5691 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2017\/09\/sims-front-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2017\/09\/sims-front-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2017\/09\/sims-front-1024x728.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2017\/09\/sims-front.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were delighted to hear back from Professor Gabrielle Sims this week in the form of a postcard to the Core office. She writes to us from her beloved Italy and wishes us well. Take a look at what she has to say:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/07\/gabrille-sims-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/07\/gabrille-sims-back-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"gabrille-sims-back\" width=\"239\" height=\"170\" class=\" wp-image-5693 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/07\/gabrille-sims-back-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/07\/gabrille-sims-back-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/07\/gabrille-sims-back-1024x728.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/07\/gabrille-sims-back.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>10 July 2014<\/p>\n<p>Dear whomever is in the office in July&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To add to the wonderful wall of postcards behind Zak&#8217;s desk, I thought I&#8217;d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">IMPLY<\/span> rather than scream Florence with an image from an excellent recent exhibition of a great Florentine artist. This feels very &#8220;Core Curriculum&#8221; to me! I send <em>cari saluti<\/em>, Tuscan sunshine, and exceedingly good food and wine (oh, well, I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">would<\/span> send these last 3 things if I could!)<\/p>\n<p><em>Con affetto, a presto,<\/em><br \/>\nGabrielle Sims<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>* Core loves postcards. Whether youre at home or abroad now, wed love to get one from you. Our address is easy: Core Curriculum, Boston University, Boston MA 02215.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were delighted to hear back from Professor Gabrielle Sims this week in the form of a postcard to the Core office. She writes to us from her beloved Italy and wishes us well. Take a look at what she has to say: 10 July 2014 Dear whomever is in the office in July&#8230; To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4308],"tags":[48390,48789,4309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690"}],"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\/6257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}