{"id":18160,"date":"2016-12-14T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18160"},"modified":"2016-12-14T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:22:27","slug":"the-best-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18160","title":{"rendered":"The best view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is exactly one skyscraper in Paris, the Tour Montparnasse.  From wherever you are in Paris, you can see it looming against the sky, an extremely large, aggressive and un-Parisien exception to the thoughtfully composed architecture of this city.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I am visiting a research institute in Paris, which is located in this tower.  A joke I have heard several times from Parisiens is that the great thing about being in Tour Montparnasse is that it is the only place in Paris where you can&#8217;t see Tour Montparnasse.<\/p>\n<p>Another great thing is that it does indeed give you a spectacular view of the rest of Paris.  Here is a photo I took with my phone, a night view of the City of Light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paris_at_night.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paris_at_night.jpg\" alt=\"paris_at_night\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paris_at_night.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paris_at_night-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/paris_at_night-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is exactly one skyscraper in Paris, the Tour Montparnasse. From wherever you are in Paris, you can see it looming against the sky, an extremely large, aggressive and un-Parisien exception to the thoughtfully composed architecture of this city. At the moment I am visiting a research institute in Paris, which is located in this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The best view&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18163,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions\/18163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}