{"id":5233,"date":"2017-11-04T06:26:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T04:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/?p=5233"},"modified":"2017-11-04T06:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T04:26:54","slug":"a-bit-of-a-surreal-stroll-around-tiergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2017\/11\/a-bit-of-a-surreal-stroll-around-tiergarten\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of a surreal stroll around Tiergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiergarten is a huge inner-city park in Berlin, named after the &#8216;tier&#8217; (dier \/ animals) placed here for hunting in the 16th century by the electors of the Holy Roman Empire. As you do.<\/p>\n<p>Today, it&#8217;s known as the green lung of the city and includes the Berlin Zoo in one of its corners, with over 19,000 animals that help contribute to global breeding programmes.<\/p>\n<p>I took a stroll on a rainy day so it was pretty deserted, which made some of the hunting statues even creepier, and the pop-up shrine to Michael Jackson (wet teddy bear and all) a little too uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"17\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171101_1400241639962360.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"14\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171101_134450369975948.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"15\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171101_134312843434039.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171101_133213-01.jpeg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"18\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171101_134618-01.jpeg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"19\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171101_134717-01.jpeg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"23\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171101_1340312066784615.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>As you emerge from the park at the one end, the Berlin Victory Column shines in the sky in bright gold, celebrating the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War. I just wonder how they polish the statue of Victoria at the top!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171101_134628-01.jpeg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"21\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171101_134824181438974.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171101_134836640209605.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiergarten is a huge inner-city park in Berlin, named after the &#8216;tier&#8217; (dier \/ animals) placed here for hunting in the 16th century by the electors of the Holy Roman Empire. As you do. Today, it&#8217;s known as the green lung of the city and includes the Berlin Zoo in one&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5234,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}