{"id":4733,"date":"2003-12-14T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2003-12-14T10:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2003-12-14T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2003-12-14T10:51:53","slug":"walk-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/12\/14\/walk-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk in the park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A visit to London yesterday for dinner with friends as well as a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serpentinegallery.org\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Serpentine homepage\">Serpentine Gallery<\/a> to see the exhibition of photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Pictures of nothing much at first glance, being in the main large monochrome seascapes, but revealing, on closer examination, a subtle texture of ripples, waves, clouds and stars.<br \/>\nIt was the first time that either of us had been to the Serpentine, which is a rather neat and small building, glowing brightly in the darkness of a winter evening in Hyde Park. Its small size is actually an asset &#8211; no risk of getting &quot;galleried out&quot; at the Serpentine.<br \/>\nEven more impressive in Hyde Park was the brightly lit and shimmering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorianweb.org\/sculpture\/albertmem\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"lots of pictures here\">Albert Memorial<\/a>. In any other city in the world, such a structure would be the centre of massive tourist activity and would feature in every postcard. London simply has too many significant structures, and the Memorial is all too frequently overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visit to London yesterday for dinner with friends as well as a visit to the Serpentine Gallery to see the exhibition of photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Pictures of nothing much at first glance, being in the main large monochrome seascapes, but revealing, on closer examination, a subtle texture of ripples, waves, clouds and stars. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}