{"id":17966,"date":"2022-09-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=17966"},"modified":"2023-03-09T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:48:04","slug":"sunrise-over-bondi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2022\/09\/01\/sunrise-over-bondi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise over Bondi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my favorite parts about being in Sydney has been how close I feel to the beach and other parts of nature. Yesterday morning, I decided to take full advantage of that nearness and took the bus to the beach to watch the sunrise. Taking public transportation alone at 4:30 in the morning is definitely an interesting experience, especially compared to Columbia, Missouri where there is basically no public transport. However, it felt safer than I expected it to; it was relatively quick and was full of tired people working early shifts. After an hour of driving through the dark city that was somehow still awake, I got there just in time to get a coffee and watch the sunrise over the eastern coast at Bondi Beach. It was one of my favorite memories of studying abroad yet, and I can&#8217;t wait to experience the other unique opportunities that this environment has to offer!<\/p>\n\n\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52339067658_1fcb82fb58_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sky fading from blue to orange over the shoreline with the city lighting up in the background.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise at Bondi Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"card-body\" style=\"background: #D7D7D7\">Learn more about this blogger&#8217;s study abroad program: <a href=\"https:\/\/mystudyabroad.missouri.edu\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&amp;id=11137\">University of Technology Sydney<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite parts about being in Sydney has been how close I feel to the beach and other parts of nature. Yesterday morning, I decided to take full advantage of that nearness and took the bus to the beach to watch the sunrise. Taking public transportation alone at 4:30 in the morning is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-17966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-australia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17966"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18004,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions\/18004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}