{"id":2372,"date":"2012-01-27T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2012-01-27T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T11:18:09","slug":"parc-guell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"Parc Guell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/howtocarpeadiem.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/dscn0020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-26\" style=\"border: 3px solid black;margin: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/howtocarpeadiem.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/dscn0020.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Park Guell Gaudi Benches\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: candara\">After finally vanquishing the final dregs of jet lag, I planned an afternoon to be a tourist. I hopped on the Metro, which is exponentially cleaner, more efficient, and all around better than the CTA (sorry Chicago), and made way to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD\">Antoni Gaudi&#8217;s<\/a> famous park, <em>Park Guell<\/em>. Gaudi and Joan Miro are the two faces of <em>modernisme<\/em>, the artistic style of Catalonia that ignored the Gothic style at the time. Park Guell is modeled after an English <\/span><span style=\"font-family: candara\">garden-city model of urban planning, thus the architecture adjusts to the environment and not vice versa. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/howtocarpeadiem.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/dscn0027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28 alignleft\" style=\"border: 3px solid black;margin: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/howtocarpeadiem.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/dscn0027.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: candara\">In the pictures I took, you can see that Gaudi deliberately created organic looking structures and drew inspiration from the natural world around him. I did stop to admire the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3101\/2571639609_6e6cd40215.jpg\">Gaudi dragon<\/a>, though my favorite structures were the fences, gates, and stairs that Gaudi incorporated throughout the park. A huge, sweeping staircase caught my attention because it was almost out of place; a ballroom or grand hotel seem to be more apt locations for the staircase, not a public park. Walking most of the park took me two hours to do because the <em>Casa-Museo Gaudi<\/em> and the <em>Casa Trias<\/em> also occupy the expansive park and are worth visiting. Luckily, Park Guell is close to my university and I predict I&#8217;ll be back to relax for a siesta sometime soon.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finally vanquishing the final dregs of jet lag, I planned an afternoon to be a tourist. I hopped on the Metro, which is exponentially cleaner, more efficient, and all around better than the CTA (sorry Chicago), and made way to Antoni Gaudi&#8217;s famous park, Park Guell. Gaudi and Joan Miro are the two faces &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=2372\"> 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-2372","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\/2372","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=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}