{"id":6095,"date":"2013-01-27T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T21:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2013-01-27T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T21:25:37","slug":"angel-of-the-waters-365027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/27\/angel-of-the-waters-365027\/","title":{"rendered":"angel of the waters | 365:027"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The last post was of an angry sea-god, so I might as well counterbalance with one of my favorite (and most-photographed) spots in the city &#8211; Bethesda Fountain, featuring the angel of the waters, a tribute to the naval war dead after the Civil War, and one of the most beautiful, well-placed fountains around (even without water in the wintertime).  According to &#8220;New York, A Documentary History&#8221; (which I have watched in its 14-hour entirety multiple times), there was controversy when she was installed, due to the fact that she looked like a peasant with wings rather than some lofty creature, but the people loved that she was, well, one of them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_0595.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0595\" width=\"930\" height=\"698\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6092\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_0595.jpg 930w, http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_0595-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_0595-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_0595-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last post was of an angry sea-god, so I might as well counterbalance with one of my favorite (and most-photographed) spots in the city &#8211; Bethesda Fountain, featuring the angel of the waters, a tribute to the naval war dead after the Civil War, and one of the most beautiful, well-placed fountains around (even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[29,14,10],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-1Aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}