{"id":67,"date":"2009-08-13T12:54:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=67"},"modified":"2009-09-14T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T13:26:42","slug":"taj-mahal-a-monument-built-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Taj Mahal: a monument built for love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-197 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/707\/2009\/09\/agra2.jpg\" alt=\"Taj Mahal\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/707\/2009\/09\/agra2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/707\/2009\/09\/agra2.jpg?resize=300,200 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We left our hotel at 5:15 a.m. for a sunrise tour of the Taj Mahal.\u00a0 After buying our tickets we zipped past the mosquitos and hawkers on an extended golf cart to the security entrance.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Kelly&#8217;s <a title=\"What in the heck is Flat Stanley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flatstanleyproject.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flat Stanley <\/a>was confiscated at entry, they interpreted his flat paper existance as a toy.<\/p>\n<p>The Taj Mahal is a Mughal mausoleum built by the heartbroken\u00a0Shah Jahan after his favorite wife\u00a0 Mumtaz passed away giving birth to his 14th child.<\/p>\n<p>Taj facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It took 22 years to complete and more than 22,000 craftsman, each focusing on a specific decorative art.<\/li>\n<li>Specialists were brought in as far away as Europe to produce the intricately carved marble screens inside.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0marble\u00a0inlaid designs are\u00a0semiprecious stones, each painstakingly formed using a stone wheel.<\/li>\n<li>The four slender minarets at each corner of the Taj are designed to lean slightly away from the mausaleum so that if there is an earthquake they fall away.<\/li>\n<li>On the west side is a mosque and to the east is an identical building that was used as a guest palace.<\/li>\n<li>Shah Jahan began minor construction\u00a0of\u00a0an identical, but black marble Taj for himself across the river from the white marble Taj, but the Shah was imprisoned by his son and unable to complete it.\u00a0 The Shah was eventually interred next to his wife in 1666.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After we toured the Taj, we drove to the domestic airport to board a plane to Bangalore, where we will stay at XIME University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left our hotel at 5:15 a.m. for a sunrise tour of the Taj Mahal.\u00a0 After buying our tickets we zipped past the mosquitos and hawkers on an extended golf cart to the security entrance.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Kelly&#8217;s Flat Stanley was confiscated at entry, they interpreted his flat paper existance as a toy. 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