{"id":1476,"date":"2016-01-23T23:52:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1476-splashes-and-sparkles.html"},"modified":"2016-01-23T23:52:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T13:22:13","slug":"splashes-and-sparkles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1476-splashes-and-sparkles.html","title":{"rendered":"Splashes and Sparkles"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2050 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1305-_MG_7880-HDR.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all splashes and sparkles and plenty of civic bling at Henley Square now that the construction work is complete.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn a hot summer evening children play in the open-air water feature while an aerial light-show plays above.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPeople mingle after dinner in one of the restaurants discussing their meal, their day or choosing which bar to head on to. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs pretty as it all is now this wonderful civic facility has had its casualties. During construction businesses suffered, some did not recover.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI loved coming down here before and I love coming down here now. I&#8217;m really not sure if the pain was all worth it but I hope at least they keep Henley Square&#8217;s new bling polished, splashy and sparkling.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Splashes and Sparkles&#8217;, 2s f\/9 ISO1000 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all splashes and sparkles and plenty of civic bling at Henley Square now that the construction work is complete. On a hot summer evening children play in the open-air water feature while an aerial light-show plays above. People mingle after dinner in one of the restaurants discussing their meal, their day or choosing which &#8230; <a title=\"Splashes and Sparkles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1476-splashes-and-sparkles.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Splashes and Sparkles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}