{"id":8900,"date":"2019-08-23T21:17:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T21:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=8900"},"modified":"2019-08-26T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T07:18:10","slug":"liysf-2019-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/08\/23\/liysf-2019-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"LIYSF 2019: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/246BAA05-834F-4A89-A7CF-6AD3E363F4FC-e1566591902759.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8909 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/246BAA05-834F-4A89-A7CF-6AD3E363F4FC-e1566591902759-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/246BAA05-834F-4A89-A7CF-6AD3E363F4FC-e1566591902759-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/246BAA05-834F-4A89-A7CF-6AD3E363F4FC-e1566591902759.png 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>After a long flight from Vancouver to Heathrow, I have finally arrived in London! The day has been a whirlwind of new faces and introductions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/FE2BF2A4-6ECC-433F-8621-BB59DA4B3DA4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8911 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/FE2BF2A4-6ECC-433F-8621-BB59DA4B3DA4-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/FE2BF2A4-6ECC-433F-8621-BB59DA4B3DA4-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/FE2BF2A4-6ECC-433F-8621-BB59DA4B3DA4-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/FE2BF2A4-6ECC-433F-8621-BB59DA4B3DA4-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/FE2BF2A4-6ECC-433F-8621-BB59DA4B3DA4-320x240.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once I arrived I had some time to explore the university and surrounding city. The Imperial College of London where I am staying is absolutely beautiful and so full of history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/C40115A0-D3A0-4893-84E1-ED1C165F6A32.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8904 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/C40115A0-D3A0-4893-84E1-ED1C165F6A32-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/C40115A0-D3A0-4893-84E1-ED1C165F6A32-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/08\/C40115A0-D3A0-4893-84E1-ED1C165F6A32-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>On my way to dinner I met the only other Canadian at the forum. Even though she is from the other side of the country in Newfoundland and Labrador, it was nice to feel close to a piece of home.<\/p>\n<p>Our first day ended with a brief welcome by the LIYSF director, Richard Myhill, highlighting the exciting journey to come over the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Isabelle St-Martin<\/p>\n<p>July 24 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long flight from Vancouver to Heathrow, I have finally arrived in London! The day has been a whirlwind of new faces and introductions. Once I arrived I had some time to explore the university and surrounding city. The Imperial College of London where I am staying is absolutely beautiful and so full of &#8230; <a title=\"LIYSF 2019: Day 1\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/08\/23\/liysf-2019-day-1\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":8903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trips","category-science-in-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8900"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9158,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8900\/revisions\/9158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}