{"id":92,"date":"2018-05-21T19:29:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T00:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/?p=92"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:19:01","slug":"london-at-a-glance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/london-at-a-glance\/","title":{"rendered":"London at a Glance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-95 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_3513_Facetune_18-05-2018-09-07-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"304\">Greetings from London!<\/p>\n<p>It still doesn\u2019t really feel like I\u2019m in another country. I\u2019d never been to another country until this trip, and I guess I thought being in another country would feel different. I thought that I would feel a change in my stomach or see everything through a new lens. Everything is really the same. Trees look the same. The wind feels the same. Food tastes how it should. However, I think there are a two things that make London feel different (that I\u2019ve discovered so far!).<\/p>\n<p>1. The people. I\u2019ve yet to encounter someone who wasn\u2019t so aggressively polite and helpful. There is so much diversity here that I feel like I\u2019ve barely spoken to anyone with a British accent. Everyone dresses so nicely; I think largely due to the fact that they don\u2019t sweat when they simply walk outside like in Texas. Everyone\u2019s walking, talking, moving, but no one is in a huge rush (except my brother!).<\/p>\n<p>2. The buildings are beautiful. Every building has a story and it shows on its exterior. I\u2019m not used to looking up when I walk because there\u2019s nothing exciting to see. I\u2019ve never seen so many unique and intricate pieces of architecture in one day. The streets themselves are just as beautiful in my eyes despite their outrageous trip hazards (I won\u2019t embarrass myself by telling you how many times I\u2019ve tripped already).<\/p>\n<p>A city is no place without its people. London has great people and the landscape to prove that good people have been there for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m excited to explore more and to share more with you. You can check my Facebook, Twitter (@HopeRouse) or Instagram (@HopeRouse) to see when I post more on the blog. If you would like to watch my trip in video form, you can subscribe to my YouTube Channel (Hope Rouse) to watch my vlogs. You can watch my first vlog here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/icFLbaPsi8c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Signing off from London,<\/p>\n<p>Hope Rouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from London! It still doesn\u2019t really feel like I\u2019m in another country. I\u2019d never been to another country until this trip, and I guess I thought being in another country would feel different. I thought that I would feel a change in my stomach or see everything through a new lens. Everything is really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}