{"id":977,"date":"2016-04-28T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/?p=977"},"modified":"2016-04-28T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:01:59","slug":"how-london-taught-me-about-diversity-by-katherine-smythe-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/2016\/04\/28\/how-london-taught-me-about-diversity-by-katherine-smythe-16\/","title":{"rendered":"How London Taught Me About Diversity by Katherine Smythe &#8217;16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-981\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-28-at-3.52.09-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-28 at 3.52.09 PM\" width=\"95\" height=\"115\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Katherine Smythe &#8217;16<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Major: English<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifsa-butler.org\/university-college-london.html\">University College London with IFSA-Butler<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Spring 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly five months since I arrived home from London, and I still vividly remember my last morning. I left my flat around 6:15am, the wheels of my two gigantic suitcases <!--more-->rolling loudly on the pavement as I walked a few blocks to Paddington Station to catch the Heathrow Express train. The morning was cool but bright since it was the end of May. I was alone. At any given time I\u2019d have to look twice before stepping off my doorstep in order to not cause an accidental collision. Rarely were the streets quiet \u2013 I remember struggling at first to adjust to the constant buzz of traffic, occasional sirens, horns, and general commotion. But that morning was perfectly quiet. Starbucks, Costa and Pret-A-Manger, usually revolving doors of people, were dark, and metal shutters covered the various luggage, memorabilia, and money exchange stores as I made my way down the street.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Continue reading <\/em><\/strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.ifsa-butler.org\/england\/how-london-taught-me-about-diversity\">Katherine&#8217;s post<\/a><\/em><em> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.ifsa-butler.org\/\">The IFSA-Butler Alumni Blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Smythe &#8217;16 Major: English University College London with IFSA-Butler Spring 2015 &nbsp; It\u2019s been nearly five months since I arrived home from London, and I still vividly remember my last morning. I left my flat around 6:15am, the wheels of my two gigantic suitcases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[266376,267203,269957,270881],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}