{"id":1213,"date":"2016-05-05T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T21:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/julsi\/?p=103"},"modified":"2016-05-05T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T21:15:16","slug":"and-so-it-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/and-so-it-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"And so it starts\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a new city with a small group of peers and we go on tours together and it slightly tears at me.<\/p>\n<p>The tear: tourist vs. visitor<\/p>\n<p>I dislike the thought of being a tourist. But I am one, of course. I&#8217;m here and I&#8217;m surrounded by my brilliant classmates and having people show me around and teach me. I enjoy that. But the thought of being a stereotypical tourist (fanny-packed, passive, wide-eyed, sheep-like) makes me uncomfortable. Why? There&#8217;s a certain irrational shame in being an obvious unknowing stranger I guess. I prefer to see myself as the anonymous and shadowy visitor, completely unremarkable, taking everything in silently. Maybe it&#8217;s just a jaded city girl thing, though.<\/p>\n<p>Our first group outing brought us from the Brandenberg Tor through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Finance building with it&#8217;s spooky Nazi doorknobs and cheery Eastern bloc mural, ending at the site of Hitler&#8217;s bunker, where he and his wife killed themselves for their honeymoon. <\/p>\n<p>I ended up going on that exact same route maybe a week later, with three other people.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to go alone, I think. Be the invisible visitor.<\/p>\n<p>What stuck to me immediately was the beauty of The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The levels of planes, perfect lines, grays, light glints, all in perfect harmony&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I will return for it, and fill giant pages with it, so that I won&#8217;t forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m in a new city with a small group of peers and we go on tours together and it slightly tears at me. The tear: tourist vs. visitor I dislike the thought of being a tourist. But I am one, of course. I&rsquo;m here and I&rsquo;m surrounded by my brilliant classmates and having people show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"geo":{"latitude":52.5162735,"longitude":13.3777037,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"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\/3316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}