{"id":95,"date":"2015-07-14T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/?p=95"},"modified":"2015-07-14T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T22:30:21","slug":"vive-la-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/2015\/07\/14\/vive-la-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Vive la France!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were fortunate enough to get to spent July 14, Bastille Day, in France!<\/p>\n<p>Originally we had thought we were going to miss the fireworks by the Eiffel Tower because the metro stations would close and we had no way back to the Cit\u00e9 Universitaire. \u00a0Being disappointed that we would miss the fireworks, we took matters into our own hands and sought out a local spot with high elevation.<\/p>\n<p>We climbed to the top floor of the United States house and found that we were able to see part of the Eiffel Tower. \u00a0Excited, we gathered around to watch the show, then the director of the US House showed up. \u00a0At first we were afraid she was going to ask up to leave and we would be unable to see the fireworks. \u00a0To our surprise, she unlocked the door to the roof and suggested we go outside for an even better view.<\/p>\n<p>From the roof we were able to watch\u00a0five separate firework shows across Paris. \u00a0The experience was truly amazing and the view was breath taking. \u00a0The pictures below don&#8217;t do it justice.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>La F\u00eate Nationale!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150714_171644293-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150714_171644293\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150714_171644293-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150714_171644293-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150714_170658530.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150714_170658530-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150714_170658530\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150714_170658530-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150714_170658530-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2015\/07\/IMG_20150714_170658530-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were fortunate enough to get to spent July 14, Bastille Day, in France! Originally we had thought we were going to miss the fireworks by the Eiffel Tower because the metro stations would close and we had no way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/2015\/07\/14\/vive-la-france\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"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\/paris-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/paris-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}