{"id":163,"date":"2009-08-21T16:49:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linux.dickinson.edu\/wpmu\/norwichhumanities\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-09-15T06:10:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T10:10:53","slug":"greenwich-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/2009\/08\/greenwich-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwich &amp; Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The boat ride was a really great way to see London, today. It was incredible to see how much the\u00a0Thames has stayed the same over the years\u00a0 (in that it is still a major waterway for transportation purposes) as well as how much it has changed (in that it is, luckily for us, \u00a0no longer a cesspool of human and industrial wastes). The museums at the Royal Observatory were fascinating. I really thought a lot about the concept of time and what it means to our culture. That watches used to be a symbol of wealth and status, I think, is particularly poignant. The wealthy are, in essence, the ones who <em>own<\/em> time in that they\u00a0own time of their employees, and therefore, to an extent, the employees themselves. Greenwich is an absolutely beautiful area and I plan on going back. I\u00a0particularly enjoyed wandering around the market; I&#8217;m now especially excited for our East Street Market assignment tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The boat ride was a really great way to see London, today. It was incredible to see how much the\u00a0Thames has stayed the same over the years\u00a0 (in that it is still a major waterway for transportation purposes) as well as how much it has changed (in that it is, luckily for us, \u00a0no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[752,863,867],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anya","tag-greenwich","tag-thames","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}