{"id":2516,"date":"2014-02-21T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2014-01-20T00:05:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T23:05:54","slug":"friday-photo-bridge-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2014\/02\/21\/friday-photo-bridge-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Photo: Bridge building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Forth Bridge construction: General view taken late in the evening by National Library of Scotland, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nlscotland\/5181441672\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Forth Bridge construction: General view taken late in the evening\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1007\/5181441672_437de432a7_o.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Photograph of general view of the Forth Bridge under construction. We have here a view taken late in the evening, which accounts for the smoothness of the water and the depth of the shadows. This view is chiefly remarkable for effect, much detail at the base of the cantilevers being lost. The picture embraces the whole of bridge up to date, north of south cantilever and on a considerable scale.<br \/>\n&mdash;Transcription from Philip Phillips, &#8216;The Forth Railway Bridge&#8217;, Edinburgh, 1890.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forth_Bridge\">Forth (Rail) Bridge<\/a>, not to be confused with the Forth Road Bridge.)<\/p>\n<p>Further photos available on the National Library of Scotland site <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.nls.uk\/scottish-bridges\/pageturner.cfm?id=74464117\">here<\/a> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/commons\">Flickr Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photograph of general view of the Forth Bridge under construction. We have here a view taken late in the evening, which accounts for the smoothness of the water and the depth of the shadows. This view is chiefly remarkable for effect, much detail at the base of the cantilevers being lost. The picture embraces the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2014\/02\/21\/friday-photo-bridge-building\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Photo: Bridge building<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1593],"tags":[1899,1662],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-commons","tag-forth-bridge","tag-ironmongery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}