{"id":4360,"date":"2014-05-12T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:57:56","slug":"the-lourve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/the-lourve\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lourve. by Aliza Breyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10308171_1420866334850183_814257940268550616_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4386\" alt=\"10308171_1420866334850183_814257940268550616_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/10308171_1420866334850183_814257940268550616_n-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Yesterday was amazing! We got to experience the Louvre for many many hours and it&#8217;s something that won&#8217;t be forgotten! Seeing all of these famous paintings and statues was very eye opening. Having (essentially) a personal tour guide helped a lot. Knowing now why the Mona Lisa is famous because of her smile and she was the first ever to be smiling in a portrait is awesome to see in person..and of course taking a &#8220;selfie&#8221; with Mona was pretty cool too.<br \/>\nAfter Louvre we walked to The Column of Napoleon. After his victory, he took 300 cannons, from his allies, melted them down and created a column with a statue of himself at the top. Curving around the column tells an exaggerated story. And because it was made out of cannons and not stone it is rusted and green.<br \/>\nAll in all, yesterday was an amazing day and I can&#8217;t wait for the rest of the trip! I&#8217;m so excited to be in Paris with everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was amazing! We got to experience the Louvre for many many hours and it&#8217;s something that won&#8217;t be forgotten! Seeing all of these famous paintings and statues was very eye opening. Having (essentially) a personal tour guide helped a lot. Knowing now why the Mona Lisa is famous because of her smile and she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/the-lourve\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lourve. by Aliza Breyan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-4360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france-and-england","category-study-abroad","tag-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9420,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions\/9420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}