{"id":369,"date":"2016-11-20T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/?p=369"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:39:19","slug":"369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2016\/11\/20\/369\/","title":{"rendered":"COP in the heart of Marrakech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we entered Djemaa el-Fna, the crowded, pulsing, square at the heart of the medina, we saw this neon sign high above the square.\u00a0 Storytellers, acrobats, musicians, and maybe even snake charmers (we couldn&#8217;t see over the thick crowds surrounding some of these groups) drew huge crowds, as did<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/street_scene.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-332\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/street_scene.jpg\" alt=\"As we entered Djemaa el-Fna, the square at the heart of the medina, we saw this neon sign high above the square. Storytellers, acrobats, musicians, and maybe even snake charmers (we couldn't see over the thick crowds surrounding some of these groups) draw huge crowds, as do the food stalls and shops. Since one of the COP buses dropped off between the Koutoubia Mosque and the square, it was easy to visit at the end of the COP day. Somewhat insane in its noise and throngs and energy, but what an experience!\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/street_scene.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/street_scene-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the food stalls and shops.\u00a0 Since one of the free COP buses dropped off between the Koutoubia Mosque and the square, it was easy to visit at the end of the COP day.\u00a0 Somewhat insane in its noise and throngs and energy, but what an experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we entered Djemaa el-Fna, the crowded, pulsing, square at the heart of the medina, we saw this neon sign high above the square.\u00a0 Storytellers, acrobats, musicians, and maybe even snake charmers (we couldn&#8217;t see over the thick crowds surrounding some of these groups) drew huge crowds, as did the food stalls and shops.\u00a0 Since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2016\/11\/20\/369\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COP in the heart of Marrakech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}