{"id":18478,"date":"2020-11-05T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colleensparis.com\/?p=18478"},"modified":"2020-11-06T15:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:05:39","slug":"le-jardin-du-luxembourg-live-or-virtual-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/2020\/11\/le-jardin-du-luxembourg-live-or-virtual-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Jardin du Luxembourg: Live or Virtual Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"
Feeling like taking a walk through a garden today? I have a recommendation. On a sunny mid-October morning, I visited the Luxembourg Gardens live and virtually while testing a guided tour application. \u00a0Gary Kraut\u2019s Luxembourg Gardens tour<\/a> began at the kiosk on one side of the S\u00e9nat and ended on the other side. The GPS and phone camera helped me stay on the path and Gary\u2019s easy-to- follow instructions and his map guided me physically. Simultaneously following the tour and taking photographs, I needed that GPS, 15-second rewind and camera to get me easily back on track.<\/div>\n
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During the walk, I picked up new tidbits on information as Gary guided with a very casual, easy-to-listen tone. \u00a0No spoiler alert, but some of the topics that I enjoyed learning about:<\/div>\n
\u2022 Original of the Statue of Liberty model was moved in 2012<\/div>\n
\u2022 Origin of covered pockmarks on the S\u00e9nat wall<\/div>\n
\u2022 The English word for p\u00e9tanque<\/div>\n
\u2022 The history of the flat apple and pear trees<\/div>\n
\u2022 Escape stories about the resident rose-ringed parakeets.<\/div>\n
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There was much more to listen to and learn about but you will have to download the app to get the answers and enjoy Gary Kraut\u2019s tour on your own. I have replayed the tour twice more! \u00a0Visit Gary Kraut\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/div>\n
I found a Luxembourg Gardens map and brochure<\/a> on the S\u00e9nat website (French)<\/div>\n
Enjoy!<\/div>\n
\"Mother<\/a>\"Image
September Festival of the Beehives<\/div><\/a>\"Luxembourg<\/a>\"Image<\/a>\"Medici<\/a>\"Autumn<\/a>\"Greek<\/a>\"Sculpture
Sculpture commemorating the Student Resistants during the Second World War<\/div><\/a>\"Pockmarks
Pockmarks covered up from bullet holes in the Senate building<\/div><\/a>\"Playground<\/a>\"Two
Two fields for playing p\u00e9tanque (jeux de boules)<\/div><\/a>\"Gardeners
Gardeners are replanting around Luxembourg Gardens with Autumn plants<\/div><\/a>\"Chess
Chess players near l'Orangerie greenhouse at Luxembourg Gardens<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feeling like taking a walk through a garden today? I have a recommendation. \u200bOn a sunny mid-October morning, I \u200bvisited\u00a0the\u00a0Luxembourg Gardens\u00a0live and virtually while testing a guided tour application.\u00a0\u200b\u00a0Gary Kraut’s Luxembourg Gardens\u200b \u200btour \u200bbegan at the kiosk on one side of the S\u00e9nat and ended on the other side. The GPS and phone camera helped me stay on the path and Gary\u2019s easy-to- follow instructions and his map guided me physically. Simultaneously following the tour and taking photographs, I needed that GPS, 15-second rewind and camera to get me easily back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[855,1114],"tags":[857,1264,1265,1267],"class_list":["post-18478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guided-walks","category-lets-explore","tag-guided-tour","tag-jardin-du-luxembourg","tag-luxembourg-gardens","tag-phone-application"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/LuxembourgGardens_ColleensParis_Chess_P2800787.jpeg?fit=1280%2C855&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18478"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18715,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478\/revisions\/18715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}