{"id":218,"date":"2014-08-04T11:35:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/?p=218"},"modified":"2014-08-04T11:35:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:35:01","slug":"elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/2014\/08\/04\/elementary\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly every day on this trip we\u2019ve gone somewhere serious and historic. We\u2019ve been to an array of cathedrals, towers, museums and palaces. But yesterday, we decided to visit The Sherlock Holmes Museum. Tourist trap? Yes. Kitschy? Definitely. But I must admit, I was eager to go. I didn\u2019t even care that we waited for nearly two hours, or that the place was maybe 1200 square feet of viewing pleasure after that long wait. I had ten minutes of pop culture pleasure. I took photos and bought souvenirs. I basically took the tourist bait, hook, line and sinker \u2026 and I have no regrets. I had my campy fun. And yes, it tied into our literary goals, as we read <i>The Sign of Four<\/i>, so no time was wasted on the academic front. But after a decade of watching Jeremy Brett as Sherlock, and now being totally hooked on the \u201cSherlock\u201d series with Benedict Cumberbatch, I was frankly a little less concerned with the literary merits of visiting the \u201cmuseum,\u201d and turned into your garden-variety fan. So now I can say that I\u2019ve been inside 221b Baker Street, and I can add that experience to all the other wonderful, proper, high-brow, literary destinations visited on this journey.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-219\" alt=\"DSC02117\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02117-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02117-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02117-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02117-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02118-Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-220\" alt=\"DSC02118 - Copy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02118-Copy-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02118-Copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02118-Copy-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02118-Copy-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-221\" alt=\"DSC02161\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02161-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02161-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02161-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/08\/DSC02161-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly every day on this trip we\u2019ve gone somewhere serious and historic. We\u2019ve been to an array of cathedrals, towers, museums and palaces. But yesterday, we decided to visit The Sherlock Holmes Museum. Tourist trap? Yes. Kitschy? Definitely. But I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/2014\/08\/04\/elementary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}