{"id":2486,"date":"2009-02-10T00:51:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T00:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2009\/02\/at_the_top_of_t\/"},"modified":"2009-02-10T00:51:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T00:51:03","slug":"at_the_top_of_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/at_the_top_of_t\/","title":{"rendered":"At The Top of the BT Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I was invited to a presentation at the BT Tower, followed by a dinner at the top of the tower in their famous revolving restaurant. This is closed to the public, and it was exciting to get a chance to go up there.<br \/>\nSadly, today probably wasn&#8217;t the best day to go up.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/3267421601\/\" title=\"09 February 2009 by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3314\/3267421601_916d03a6ca.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"09 February 2009\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere was a quickly descending fog which meant significantly reduced visibility, and of course it was pouring with rain too. So the above photo is about the best I got from up there. I couldn&#8217;t even tell you which direction I was looking in when I took it.<br \/>\nThe following photo gives you an idea about just how bad the conditions were.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/3267424413\/\" title=\"BT Tower on Dark Stormy Night by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3484\/3267424413_d3b2870bc1.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"BT Tower on Dark Stormy Night\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI must go on the London Eye again at some point, as my sole visit was also on a foggy evening, and you could barely see Big Ben just across the river.<br \/>\nOh&#8230; and the restaurant in the BT Tower did revolve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I was invited to a presentation at the BT Tower, followed by a dinner at the top of the tower in their famous revolving restaurant. This is closed to the public, and it was exciting to get a chance to go up there. Sadly, today probably wasn&#8217;t the best day to go up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}