{"id":666,"date":"2008-09-21T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=666"},"modified":"2009-09-21T18:06:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T02:06:56","slug":"night-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Night Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/window_l_sm.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[image of window]\" \/> was taken at night, in the yellow glow of lights illuminating a parking lot.  It's of the same building that has the collapsing staircases and balcony photographs of which I've posted to this &#39;blog.<\/p> <p>There was a seemingly derelict fellow on a bicycle in the parking lot as I set up to take the photo.  He was amazed that I would want to photograph the building at all.  I responded that the building had many interesting features.  He declared that an amazing feature is that shown here: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/window_r_d.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"326\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[image of a pile of stuff in a window]\" \/> I'm not sure what sort of room is immediately on the other side of that window, but beyond the pile of stuff there is what appears to be a shower curtain. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/window_r.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"625\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[close-up image of a pile of stuff in a window]\" \/> The fellow on the bicycle has decided, in all seriousness, that the pile of stuff is being thus hidden by the occupant from his friends, in a shower stall or tub &mdash; a theory which seems to imply a distinct lack of privacy for anyone previously using the shower, and that the occupant doesn't anticipate his friends ever looking into that window.<\/p> <p>The bicyclist and I discussed the exterior staircases and balcony.  He railed against the landlord, and thence against rental prices in San Diego.  He opined that the Arabs (pronounced \/&#712;e&#633;&aelig;b\/) might be responsible.<\/p> <p>As I packed-up my stuff, he pedalled off into the night.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This photo was taken at night, in the yellow glow of lights illuminating a parking lot. It's of the same building that has the collapsing staircases and balcony photographs of which I've posted to this &#39;blog. There was a seemingly derelict fellow on a bicycle in the parking lot as I set up to take [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,5,4],"tags":[372,334,84,390],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-personal","category-public","tag-architecture","tag-everyday-absurdity","tag-hillcrest","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}