{"id":419,"date":"2010-04-16T15:12:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2010-04-16T15:12:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:12:30","slug":"eiffel-tower-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/eiffel-tower-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Eiffel Tower fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working from home today.  A few minutes ago, Kaeta wondered in and asked me (apropos of nothing) what&#8217;s at the top of the Eiffel Tower.  Naturally, I googled, &#8220;top of the eiffel tower,&#8221; and I was rewarded with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fUN0w6vWwtg\">youtube video<\/a> taken from up there.<\/p>\n<p>The video&#8217;s not all that interesting, but hey, now I know what the view looks like from the top of the Eiffel Tower.  Pretty cool so far!<\/p>\n<p>Then, because I know she loves maps, we <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=eiffel+tower&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=29.772081,86.572266&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=Tour+Eiffel&amp;hnear=Tour+Eiffel,+Quai+Branly,+75007+Paris,+France&amp;ll=48.858151,2.294565&amp;spn=0.003014,0.010568&amp;t=h&amp;z=17\">looked up the Eiffel Tower on google maps.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was immensely satisfying!  After looking around Paris for a minute, we decided to watch the youtube video again, but this time, we paused it when we saw something interesting (like the Seine River).  Then we&#8217;d go to the map and find the same thing there, and learn its name.  For example, there&#8217;s a beautiful park just south-east of the tower called the Parc du Champs de Mars &#8212; Champ de Mars means &#8220;Field of Mars&#8221;, after Mars the god of war. It was named for its original use of military drills.  (thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Champ_de_Mars,_Paris\">Wikipedia<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/champs_de_mars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"champs_de_mars\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/champs_de_mars-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we had a good time talking about all that!  I love getting unexpected questions from the kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working from home today. A few minutes ago, Kaeta wondered in and asked me (apropos of nothing) what&#8217;s at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Naturally, I googled, &#8220;top of the eiffel tower,&#8221; and I was rewarded with a youtube video taken from up there. The video&#8217;s not all that interesting, but hey, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}