{"id":349,"date":"2009-03-23T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2011-02-26T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T17:04:39","slug":"the-watercube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/the-watercube\/","title":{"rendered":"the watercube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/the-watercube\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/watercube.jpg\" alt=\"watercube\" title=\"watercube\" width=\"990\" height=\"705\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/watercube.jpg 990w, http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/watercube-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Post-Olympics, these signature, totally specific buildings sit vacant. Both the Bird&#8217;s Nest and the Watercube have already been reappropriated as museum spaces. Tourists can pay admission then be carefully herded through spaces we saw on television &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jlocke\/3369427385\/\">field of the National Stadium<\/a> and the pool where Michael Phelps won gold.<br \/>\nSee more images from Tokyo and Beijing at my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jlocke\/\">flickr page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>edit: thanks to John Hill at <a href=\"http:\/\/archidose.blogspot.com\/\">Daily Dose of Architecture<\/a> for making this image <a href=\"http:\/\/archidose.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/today-archidose-299.html\">Daily Dose #299<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Post-Olympics, these signature, totally specific buildings sit vacant. Both the Bird&#8217;s Nest and the Watercube have already been reappropriated as museum spaces. Tourists can pay admission then be carefully herded through spaces we saw on television &#8211; the field of the National Stadium and the pool where Michael Phelps won gold. See more images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[75,41,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}