{"id":342,"date":"2011-03-25T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk:\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2012-08-10T00:17:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T00:17:42","slug":"the-bridge-of-sighs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/the-bridge-of-sighs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge of Sighs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a picture of one of the major tourist attractions in Oxford – Hertford college’s Bridge of Sighs designed by Sir Thomas Jackson and completed in 1914. A famous legend about the bridge says that a long time ago, the bridge was closed so that the students would be forced to exercise themselves by taking the stairs since a health survey had shown Hertford students to be the heaviest. As much as we would all like this story to be true, it is sadly not – and actually it turns out that one has to use more stairs if they take the bridge than if they don’t. Alas, not all stories can be true after all, no matter how nice they sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a picture of one of the major tourist attractions in Oxford – Hertford college’s Bridge of Sighs designed by Sir Thomas Jackson and completed in 1914. A famous legend about the bridge says that a long time ago, the bridge was closed so that the students would be forced to exercise themselves by taking the stairs since a<\/p>\n

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