{"id":38,"date":"2011-11-05T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/2011\/11\/05\/bell-tower-in-garden\/"},"modified":"2011-11-05T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T08:55:00","slug":"bell-tower-in-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/2011\/11\/05\/bell-tower-in-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Tower in Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is a small place. I have never been to Australia, or China. A close family member, living in the USA, was in Perth recently and sent me a present of a press-out model of its famous Bell Tower. It came as two small sheets of foam board. I made it up and it had a height of about 325 mm.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_68\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/11\/bell-tower-in-garden-600x799.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68\" alt=\"Photoart showing Perth Bell  model in an unrelated garden\" src=\"http:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/11\/bell-tower-in-garden-600x799-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/11\/bell-tower-in-garden-600x799-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/11\/bell-tower-in-garden-600x799.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bell tower in garden<\/p><\/div><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I decided to find a nice spot for the bell tower in the garden. I took a photo of the garden location and a photo of the bell tower against a neutral background. With a little work and touching-up on my computer, I placed an enlarged version of the model bell tower in the garden. It seemed to go well with a granite fountain (purchased in Ireland, but which turned out, on delivery, to have been made in China), a nesting box on a pole, the shadow of a satellite dish and some flowers tended by another close family member.<\/p>\n<p>I sent the photographic composition by e-mail to my first-mentioned close family member as a reminder of home and the smallness of the world. There is something comforting about living on a small world, thanks to technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is a small place. I have never been to Australia, or China. A close family member, living in the USA, was in Perth recently and sent me a present of a press-out model of its famous Bell Tower. It came as two small sheets of foam board. I made it up and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,38,40,42],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs","tag-china","tag-perth-bell-tower","tag-photo-art","tag-small-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fun-engineering.net\/blogs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}