{"id":197,"date":"2012-02-24T01:31:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2012-02-28T13:02:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T13:02:53","slug":"cicero-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/2012\/02\/24\/cicero-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Odessey: Study Away in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/files\/2011\/09\/Picture-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-313\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/files\/2011\/09\/Picture-5-e1316878415135.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By: Jake Prosnit, Class of 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a history major, I could not have chosen a better city to study abroad in. Berlin is a place rich with history, old and new. I could walk along the banks of the Spree and imagine Berlin, the 13th century fishing town. I could journey 30 minutes by train to Potsdam and stand in awe of Frederick the Great\u2019s summer palaces, a symbol of the once dominant Prussian nobility. I could stroll through the old Jewish neighborhoods and try to envision what the people and the city looked liked before fascism and allied bombs destroyed it. I could touch the Berlin wall and still sense the divide between East and West. I saw it in the architecture; I saw it in the memorials; I saw it in the language; I saw it thru my host mom (an East German) and my host dad (a West German). I am fortunate to have experienced all these ancient and modern wonders. Most importantly, I return home having more questions than when I began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Jake Prosnit, Class of 2012 As a history major, I could not have chosen a better city to study abroad in. Berlin is a place rich with history, old and new. I could walk along the banks of the Spree and imagine Berlin, the 13th century fishing town. I could journey 30 minutes by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/2012\/02\/24\/cicero-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/historyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}