{"id":1916,"date":"2009-09-14T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2009-09-14T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T19:23:01","slug":"going-back-in-thought-about-wide-open-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/2009\/09\/going-back-in-thought-about-wide-open-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Going back in thought about wide open spaces.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sitting in the middle of this park in Bath I feel completely at peace.\u00a0 The beauty and simplicity of this place is hard to explain. In some ways it reminds me of a George Winston<\/a> song\u2014a solo pianist with an air of solitude and joy.\u00a0 In other ways it\u2019s like Kenny Chesney<\/a> song— just simple, upbeat happiness\u2026I really want to dance in this park.\u00a0 So much open space.\u00a0 People, joy, a little bit of music; it\u2019s all I need. If I had more confidence maybe I would just get up and dance right here. Maybe.<\/em><\/p>\n

I found this journal entry when looking through my notes and remembered this day in the park at Bath, but those sentiments were not ones I got solely in that park.\u00a0 There is something different about the parks in London, about the open green space that is different from parks back at home.\u00a0 Instead of feeling like you\u2019re in a vast open area in the middle of a big crowded city at the parks here I feel like I\u2019m stepping into my own private garden.\u00a0 There are not that many parks in Boston where I feel like I am in solitude like I am in these London parks.\u00a0 I have spent significant amounts of time in past summers in Copley Square Park, the green space by the Hatchshell<\/a>, and even the Boston Commons and Garden.\u00a0 Even though parks everywhere are intended used for running, playing, and enjoying the outdoors in Boston Parks I never feel like I am completely separate from the chaos of the city; I still here cars, and horns, and yelling, which I have never felt surrounded by in UK parks.<\/p>\n

I remember my feeling when I first ran into Regent\u2019s Park.\u00a0 I had been jogging down Euston Road dodging men and women in business suits until I finally found the opening to the park and it was like stepping into a movie.\u00a0 The sun was up, the air crisp, a few other joggers in the park and when I came to the Avenue filled with blossoming flowers and running fountains I seriously felt like the female lead in the newest upcoming blockbuster. I went to St. James Park later that week and had very similar sentiments.\u00a0 Only a few yards away from a main road, and yet it was a place of peace and quiet.<\/p>\n

\"CIMG1785\"<\/p>\n

These places make me feel like a child again.\u00a0 All I want to do is run around, play, and to dance.\u00a0 But then again, when don\u2019t I want to run around, play, and to dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sitting in the middle of this park in Bath I feel completely at peace.\u00a0 The beauty and simplicity of this place is hard to explain. In some ways it reminds me of a George Winston song\u2014a solo pianist with an air of solitude and joy.\u00a0 In other ways it\u2019s like Kenny Chesney song— just simple, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[1456,36,1457,828,830],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amanda","tag-boston","tag-music","tag-noise","tag-parks","tag-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/norwichhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}