{"id":4663,"date":"2012-12-04T04:31:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T12:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2012-12-04T04:31:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T12:31:43","slug":"florence-the-machine-a-dusseldorf-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2012\/12\/04\/florence-the-machine-a-dusseldorf-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence & the Machine, a D\u00fcsseldorf post"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We are Florence & the Machine.\u00a0 We have come from England.\u00a0 And we have come for human sacrifices!”<\/p>\n

Yes, I did indeed spend 16 hours round-trip, traveling from Greifswald to D\u00fcsseldorf and back.\u00a0 Four trains there and two trains back.\u00a0 I was bored out of my skull.\u00a0 You can only spend so much time reading or working on lesson plans, y’know?\u00a0 But it was soooo worth it. \u00a0Words cannot describe how utterly mind-blazingly fantastic<\/em> Florence Welch and the band are in concert.\u00a0 I want to see them again… and again… and again.<\/p>\n

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I had the opportunity to experience some of the city, too.\u00a0 My lovely CS host, LT, was gracious enough to show me around:<\/p>\n

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It is said, that when the war ended, the children were so happy that they did cartwheels in the streets. A cartwheeling figure is now the unofficial symbol for this city.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Schloss J\u00e4gerhof, in which the Goethe Museum is housed<\/p><\/div>\n

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“We are Florence & the Machine.\u00a0 We have come from England.\u00a0 And we have come for human sacrifices!” Yes, I did indeed spend 16 hours round-trip, traveling from Greifswald to D\u00fcsseldorf and back.\u00a0 Four trains there and two trains back.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kat-schmidt-12-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}