{"id":2205,"date":"2013-02-03T01:43:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2013-02-03T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:43:07","slug":"london-from-very-high-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/03\/london-from-very-high-up\/","title":{"rendered":"London &#8230; from VERY high up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkgareth.com\/\">Gareth<\/a>, I got a surprise trip to the Shard on opening day, just after sunset.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, I had my DSLR with me and *left it behind* 10 mins before Gareth phoned me, so all this is from an iPhone 4 (gasp!). Even so, it&#8217;s impressive. The Shard is so tall that you get a view of London without the typical &#8220;squashing&#8221; from perspective. Even from airplanes, flying in to Heathrow for many years, I&#8217;ve never seen quite such a decompressed view of London at night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/flickering\/8438780203\/\" title=\"IMG_3417 by ya_hoo_com, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8492\/8438780203_8215c45073_z.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_3417\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/flickering\/8439868952\/\" title=\"IMG_3427 by ya_hoo_com, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8356\/8439868952_5dbed4fa4a_z.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_3427\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/flickering\/8438786941\/\" title=\"IMG_3448 by ya_hoo_com, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8088\/8438786941_e8b2ec0c2c_z.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_3448\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/flickering\/8439874544\/\" title=\"IMG_3452 by ya_hoo_com, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8225\/8439874544_b650125aba_z.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_3452\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/flickering\/8439875608\/\" title=\"IMG_3456 by ya_hoo_com, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8324\/8439875608_07ddaef0fd_z.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_3456\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Gareth, I got a surprise trip to the Shard on opening day, just after sunset. Tragically, I had my DSLR with me and *left it behind* 10 mins before Gareth phoned me, so all this is from an iPhone 4 (gasp!). Even so, it&#8217;s impressive. The Shard is so tall that you get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}