{"id":1024,"date":"2016-04-25T09:36:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/dancetheorange\/?p=96"},"modified":"2016-04-25T09:36:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:36:37","slug":"our-first-tour-as-i-recall-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/our-first-tour-as-i-recall-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Our first tour, as I recall it\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first tour we did as a class in Berlin started at the Brandenburg Tor, on Monday the 4th of April. It has now been 3 weeks and I&#8217;m still letting information from that tour buzz around my mind like a swarm of fireflies.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through the tour we visited the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, which fills a city block in Mitte. We passed through the memorial on our own and met at the other side to talk to confer on the walk. Our guide made it clear that the architecture is not meant to symbolize anything. It consists of 2711 stelae that are ordered at a uniform distance from each other in rows, but their height and the slope of the ground is erratic and confusing. Disorientation in the confines of supposed order. The number 2711 is random and meaningless, the stelae are not meant to be symbolic, nor the material, the location, the texture. When we reconvened on the other side Gabriel mentioned that it reminded them of an archeological dig, the memorial is what remains after an excavation of the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>This week we will return to that site including \u00a0the information center below, which promises us a lot more words on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first tour we did as a class in Berlin started at the Brandenburg Tor, on Monday the 4th of April. It has now been 3 weeks and I&rsquo;m still letting information from that tour buzz around my mind like a swarm of fireflies. Halfway through the tour we visited the Memorial for the Murdered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}