{"id":2745,"date":"2013-05-26T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2013-05-26T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:22:47","slug":"vivid-sydney-striking-a-pang-for-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=2745","title":{"rendered":"Vivid Sydney: Striking a Pang for Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was entering competitions today (as I regularly do), when one comp took me to the Guardian newspaper site. While there, I noticed a video clip of them highlighting the Vivid Sydney event taking place each night over the next few weeks. As I&#8217;m on the free version of WordPress, I can&#8217;t embed any old video I like, but found (in many respects) a much lovlier example of what I saw in a YouTube clip &#8211; which I CAN embed.<\/p>\n<p>These are the things that can stir up pangs of home. Where I lived in the outer suburbs of Sydney, the centre of the city was never too far away. I do miss being able to enjoy these kinds of spectacles back home, especially at this time of year (approaching winter in Australia).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vivid Sydney 2011 - Sydney Opera House Time Lapse\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kptGthU2pk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d still like to see the Guardian video, follow the link by <a title=\"Vivid Sydney video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/video\/2013\/may\/25\/vivid-sydney-timelapse-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was entering competitions today (as I regularly do), when one comp took me to the Guardian newspaper site. While there, I noticed a video clip of them highlighting the Vivid Sydney event taking place each night over the next few weeks. As I&#8217;m on the free version of WordPress, I can&#8217;t embed any old &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=2745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vivid Sydney: Striking a Pang for Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}