{"id":1038,"date":"2009-08-30T13:02:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T13:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2009-08-30T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T13:02:55","slug":"street-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Street lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at the Web page of Hungary&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuzeum.hu\/\">Museum of Electrical Technology<\/a>. A fascinating site, pity it&#8217;s in Hungarian only.<\/p>\n<p>The Museum has many permanent exhibitions, one of which is about the technology of electrical lighting. One of the pictures available online shows some period lighting fixtures.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1039\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuzeum.hu\/galeria\/allando_vilagitas\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1039\" title=\"Street lights\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/streetlights.jpg\" alt=\"Period street lighting fixtures\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/streetlights.jpg 337w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/streetlights-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Period street lighting fixtures<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fixtures like these were still seen on many Budapest streets when I was a child. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s just me, but I find these lighting fixtures rather unfriendly in appearance, hostile even. It is almost as if their main purpose was not to provide comfort through light, but to intimidate.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1038' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at the Web page of Hungary&#8217;s Museum of Electrical Technology. A fascinating site, pity it&#8217;s in Hungarian only. The Museum has many permanent exhibitions, one of which is about the technology of electrical lighting. One of the pictures available online shows some period lighting fixtures. Fixtures like these were still seen on <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1038' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-hungary","category-technology","category-25-id","category-21-id","category-12-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}