{"id":19,"date":"2004-09-11T22:39:21","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T02:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/09\/11\/vienna\/"},"modified":"2004-09-11T22:39:21","modified_gmt":"2004-09-12T02:39:21","slug":"vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/09\/11\/vienna\/","title":{"rendered":"Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a24'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Today I arrived in Vienna &#8212; it is beautiful here!&nbsp; There are ornate statues and&nbsp;buildings&nbsp;pretty much everywhere you look.&nbsp; Probably because it is smaller and more compact, this city shows its history as a former imperial capital much more palpably than other capitals I have been to (e.g., Amsterdam, London, Paris, Berlin).&nbsp; It is just dripping with 18th and 19th Century wealth.&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">And it&#8217;s crawling with tourists.&nbsp; I have already heard Arabic, Swedish, French, Spanish, and of course, English spoken here. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Tomorrow I will be visiting St. Stephen&#8217;s cathedral, the State Opera House, the Art History Museum, and (if I still have any stamina) the Hofsburg&#8217;s palace in the old city.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Meanwhile, I am staying in a Frau Ildiko&#8217;s old apartment building with a spiral marble staircase with an ancient elevator in the middle, super-high ceilings, lots of character, and lots of must.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I arrived in Vienna &#8212; it is beautiful here!&nbsp; There are ornate statues and&nbsp;buildings&nbsp;pretty much everywhere you look.&nbsp; Probably because it is smaller and more compact, this city shows its history as a former imperial capital much more palpably than other capitals I have been to (e.g., Amsterdam, London, Paris, Berlin).&nbsp; It is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jackstriptoeuropestories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}