{"id":2366,"date":"2012-01-27T06:15:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T11:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2012-01-27T06:15:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T11:15:47","slug":"one-simply-does-not-walk-into-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=2366","title":{"rendered":"One simply does not walk into Barcelona&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:candara;font-size:medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border-color:maroon;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin:6px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ciaobambino.com\/images\/barcelona_map.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"226\" \/>It seems that this whole &#8220;study abroad&#8221; endeavor is a reality and I leave real life to have fun, fake life in Barcelona. The goal is to (re)learn how to <em>carpe<\/em> a <em>diem<\/em>. To do so, I relinquish my professional life for 6 months of unemployed bliss; I shed my personal life to step into a fresh persona; I drop all pretenses that I have any clue what I&#8217;m doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:candara;font-size:medium\">Follow this blog to ensure I am indeed alive, to live vicariously, and to add your suggestions on seizing the day. In the end, I hope my enthusiasm is contagious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aquabelladayspa.com\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderpictures\/Facebook-icon-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=601855628\">friend me<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/tomas_estoyaqui\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wsg.net\/files\/2009\/03\/twitter_logo_small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"29\" height=\"29\" \/>tomas_estoyaqui<\/a>\u00a0(for Spain-ish antics)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Thomas_Davison\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wsg.net\/files\/2009\/03\/twitter_logo_small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"29\" height=\"29\" \/>Thomas_Davison<\/a>\u00a0(for real life)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that this whole &#8220;study abroad&#8221; endeavor is a reality and I leave real life to have fun, fake life in Barcelona. The goal is to (re)learn how to carpe a diem. To do so, I relinquish my professional life for 6 months of unemployed bliss; I shed my personal life to step into &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=2366\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}