{"id":515,"date":"2009-11-11T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2010-02-20T22:45:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T03:45:21","slug":"berlinwilhelmstrasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/berlinwilhelmstrasse\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin\/Wilhelmstrasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/luftfahrtministerium.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/luftfahrtministerium.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Formerly, Nazi air force ministry, now, German finance ministry<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I made a shorter day of it confining my photos to a two or three block area between Checkpoint Charlie and Wilhelmstrasse. Many of the Nazi era government buildings were located along this street. The Berlin Wall ran just a short distance to the left of the photograph above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/welt.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: arial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/welt.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Directly across the street from the severe, but imposing, Air Force Ministry, one of the many still vacant lots in this heavily bombed out area is occupied by a tethered balloon ride and the Trabi Safari, where you can rent a 20 year old East German Trabant to drive around the city&#8211;and hopefully your fiberglass body doesn&#8217;t end up shattered like an egg by a much more substantial Mercedes or Audi. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly, Nazi air force ministry, now, German finance ministry\u00a9 Brian Rose I made a shorter day of it confining my photos to a two or three block area between Checkpoint Charlie and Wilhelmstrasse. Many of the Nazi era government buildings were located along this street. The Berlin Wall ran just a short distance to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}