{"id":72,"date":"2008-01-05T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T16:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/01\/london-in-december\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:36:58","slug":"london-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/01\/london-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"London in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A set of photos from a brief trip to London in mid December for a pair of one-day conferences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/01\/london-in-december\/hydeparktree\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/HydeParkTree-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"HydeParkTree\" title=\"HydeParkTree\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4708\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/01\/london-in-december\/hydeparksun\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/HydeParkSun-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"HydeParkSun\" title=\"HydeParkSun\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4707\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Midwinter sun in <a title=\"Wikipedia on Hyde Park\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyde_Park%2C_London\">Hyde Park<\/a> [51 30 20 N, 0 10 25 W].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/01\/london-in-december\/hydeparklake\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/HydeParkLake-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"HydeParkLake\" title=\"HydeParkLake\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4706\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Round pond in Hyde Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/01\/london-in-december\/frost\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/Frost-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Frost\" title=\"Frost\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4705\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parches of heavily frosted tall grass glistened beautifully in the low winter sun, but the photos came out rather lifeless &#8211; more work needed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/01\/london-in-december\/serpentine\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/Serpentine-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Serpentine\" title=\"Serpentine\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4709\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mist over the Serpentine lake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/01\/london-in-december\/stpancras\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/StPancras-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"StPancras\" title=\"StPancras\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4710\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The newly refurbished <a title=\"Wikipedia on St Pancras\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Pancras_railway_station\">St Pancras railway station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overnight accommodation<\/strong>: <a title=\"Link to hotel website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capricornhotels.co.uk\/byrondefault.asp\">Byron hotel<\/a> in the Bayswater area.  Decent rooms and reasonable price\/quality ratio (by London standards).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A set of photos from a brief trip to London in mid December for a pair of one-day conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,10],"tags":[41,78,158,131,56,134,29,66],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","category-travel-tips","category-uk","tag-lake","tag-lodging","tag-london","tag-park","tag-snow-ice","tag-station","tag-trains","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}