{"id":318,"date":"2009-07-19T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T10:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-10-28T17:59:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:59:30","slug":"city-of-dresden-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"City of Dresden, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Dresden has a long history, and is well known for the controversial Allied Forces bombing near the end of World War II. The face of the city drastically changed over the next 40 years during the East German socialist era. Fortunately, since the reunification in 1990, Dresden has re-emerged as a political, cultural and economic centre of Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3559.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3559-s.jpg\" alt=\"Dresden Architecture\" height=\"267\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 267px\" title=\"Dresden Architecture\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBeautiful architecture around the city<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3583.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3583-s.jpg\" alt=\"Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), Dresden, Germany\" height=\"267\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 267px\" title=\"Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), Dresden, Germany\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrauenkirche (Church of Our Lady)<br \/>\nSurvived the firebombing during WWII, however burnt out and collapsed the following day. After 13 years of rebuilding, it was completed in 2005, with joint efforts from Germany and UK.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3617.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3617-s.jpg\" alt=\"Historic Underground Basement and Frauenkirche, Dresden\" height=\"267\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 267px\" title=\"Historic Underground Basement and Frauenkirche, Dresden\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHistoric Underground Basement and Frauenkirche, Dresden<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3627-s.jpg\" alt=\"Statue in front of Frauenkirche, (Church of Our Lady), Dresden\" height=\"400\" style=\"width: 267px; height: 400px\" title=\"Statue in front of Frauenkirche, (Church of Our Lady), Dresden\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nStatue in front of Frauenkirche<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3649.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3649-s.jpg\" alt=\"Ice Cream Girl in Dresden\" height=\"267\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 267px\" title=\"Ice Cream Girl in Dresden\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3653.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3653-s.jpg\" alt=\"Peter gets Married!\" height=\"400\" style=\"width: 267px; height: 400px\" title=\"Peter gets Married!\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPeter gets married!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3675-s.jpg\" alt=\"Frozen Man\" height=\"267\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 267px\" title=\"Frozen Man\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrozen<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/EUR_3683-s.jpg\" alt=\"85L Wide Open\" height=\"400\" style=\"width: 267px; height: 400px\" title=\"85L Wide Open\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWalking the many cobbled streets<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=warrenwilliams\" class=\"addthis_button\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" height=\"16\" style=\"border: 0px\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pub=warrenwilliams\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Dresden has a long history, and is well known for the controversial Allied Forces bombing near the end of World War II. The face of the city drastically changed over the next 40 years during the East German socialist era. Fortunately, since the reunification in 1990, Dresden has re-emerged as a political, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-history","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}