{"id":1730,"date":"2010-04-21T17:32:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=1730"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:40:50","slug":"mauerpark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2005\/spring05\/features\/uncovering-berlin\/mauerpark\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauerpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Mauerpark <em>\u2014\u00a0by Kathryn Clark &#8217;06<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 4px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/spring05\/features\/berlin\/Clark-U1933.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 8px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/spring05\/features\/berlin\/clark1890WEB.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though Mauerpark (Wall Park) was near the route of my daily commute, I had to consult a map to find it. Once there, it took me a moment to find the park\u2019s namesake, one of the few remaining pieces of the Berlin Wall \u2014 squatting on a hill overlooking the park.<\/p>\n<p>I followed a young woman and watched as she claimed one of the swings on the hill. She began to pump her legs, swinging higher and higher. I continued along the graffiti-splattered wall, with its layers of chipping paint, wondering what would happen if I were to scrape it all away. An older man with a camera took pictures; I wondered whether he was a Berliner or a foreigner, like me.<\/p>\n<p>I took a seat on another swing. I was surprised to see there were no markings of any sort to indicate that this area used to be within the Death Strip or that it\u2019s even called <em>Mauerpark.<\/em> Down below, I could see the bike path and hear the sounds of a flea market behind another chain-link fence. Once a no-man\u2019s land, the park is now an every-man\u2019s land with stunted trees in fall color, a kite in the sky, and an assortment of joggers, bikers, parents pushing baby strollers, and kids playing basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauerpark \u2014\u00a0by Kathryn Clark &#8217;06 Though Mauerpark (Wall Park) was near the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1728,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1730","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11386,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1730\/revisions\/11386"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}