{"id":2791,"date":"2019-07-28T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2019-07-29T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:25:07","slug":"rio-de-janeiro-postcards-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=2791","title":{"rendered":"Rio de Janeiro Postcards 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rio de Janeiro is lustrous on the surface, to many the most beautiful city in the world. To others it is known as one of the most dangerous and troubled. This is only the postcard side, where all things are beautiful and everything looks like the travel posters you have seen. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Everyone\u2019s obligatory visit: Cristo Redentor<\/em>, the 30 meter statue of \u201cChrist the Redeemer.\u201d Hundreds of visitors mill around waiting for their chance to shoot selfies, with arms outstretched, of course. The arms are 28 meters (92 feet) across. It was built between 1922 and 1931.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View of the city showing P\u00e3o de A\u00e7ucar<\/em>, Sugar Loaf (upper left), from the 700 meter heights of Cristo Redentor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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HIgher: Cable car up to Sugar Loaf, second stage. The first stage is just below and is the first stop for postcard pictures. There is also a Starbucks, or the like.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View on the way up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Escadaria Selaron<\/em>, constructed over the years by an eccentric lover of the city. A familiar stop in Lapa, used often for music videos and films. The tiles now come from all over the world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Escadaria Selaron<\/em>, \u201cStairs of Selaron\u201d made of thousands of tiles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lapa is a center of night life, and street art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Deliveries, Lapa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Street art, and jewelry artist, Lapa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rio de Janeiro is lustrous on the surface, to many the most beautiful city in the world. To others it is known as one of the most dangerous and troubled. This is only the postcard side, where all things are beautiful and everything looks like the travel posters you have seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uwm-study-abroad-2019"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}