{"id":3858,"date":"2023-07-27T04:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T03:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:58:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:58:12","slug":"wandering-through-downtown-the-white-house-lincoln-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=3858","title":{"rendered":"Wandering through Downtown, The White House, Lincoln Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Day two in Washington DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Finding the White House wasn’t something I expected to have much trouble with, because the chunk of greenspace it sits on sticks right into the street plan. That said, I hadn’t realized that it was surrounded on all sides by the city. I mean, I knew that there were buildings on the side of it that are part of the functioning of the government, but I kind of had the idea that there was more green space wrapped around all of that than there actually is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I blame television, and the opening scene of the anime Eden Of The East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much more chill from a security perspective than I was expecting. There were police, of course, but there were also people on bicycles wearing Secret Service uniforms, just sort of chatting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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For a slightly street party vibe, an enterprising busker was playing a “dance moves detailed in the lyrics” number (from a recording) and trying to get people to join in, and enough of them were that it wasn’t a wasted effort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Around the other side of the White House, no street party, but a water\/drinks vendor had a call of “Don’t let dehydration ruin your vacation”. It’s nice to see the attempt at a clever\/interesting patter. ( One down by the reflecting pool had a more song based approach, listing the drinks for sale with a certain lyrical quality )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Went past the Washington Monument again, on my way to the Lincoln Memorial and that big pond that Captain America runs around in The Winter Soldier <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not quite the Abbey Road shot it could have been <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At a guess, they’re trying for the “hand on top of the Washington Monument shot”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some sort of protection or restoration work going on, visible in some other photos, but you can still get in to see the absolutely enormous statue <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Right in the corner was someone trying to sketch the statue, so I attempted to get a picture including them without being creepy about it. Hope I succeeded.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It is, from the steps, one impressive piece of design <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… and with the appallingly hot weather, the trees are a welcome relief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day two in Washington DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","tag-washington-dc"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-10e","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3869,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}