{"id":179,"date":"2011-01-24T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2011-01-24T22:48:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T14:48:12","slug":"roman-baths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/roman-baths","title":{"rendered":"Roman Baths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last stop of my day trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/01\/stonehenge\/\">Stonehenge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/01\/salisbury-cathedral\/\">Salisbury Cathedral<\/a> and the Roman Baths. Located in the city of Bath, the Roman Baths is a complex housing a temple and a public bath with naturally occurring hot water from the hotspring below. Today, the water is no longer safe for drinking\/bathing.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Entrance sign to the Roman Baths\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1397\/5114706806_95ae54bdfc_z.jpg\" alt=\"Entrance sign to the Roman Baths\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entrance sign to The Roman Baths<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Around the perimeter above the Great Bath, there are several statues.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Statues at the Roman Baths\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1246\/5114104921_9c5a25422c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Statues at the Roman Baths\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statues at the Roman Baths<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A short walk led us to the Great Bath below. At this moment, we had great light.I spotted a priest standing by the bath and decided to take a picture of him and his reflection on the bath water.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Priest at the Roman Baths\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1112\/5114707516_59f9bc5dff_z.jpg\" alt=\"Priest at the Roman Baths\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Priest at the Roman Baths<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At another corner of the Great Bath, I spotted the spire of the Bath Abbey.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Roman Baths and Bath Abbey in the warm glow of the afternoon sun.\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4084\/5114707918_208c7aff99_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Roman Baths and Bath Abbey in the warm glow of the afternoon sun.\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Roman Baths and Bath Abbey in the warm glow of the afternoon sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Was extremely happy that I had great light on this day (instead of the dreary grey weather typical of the UK), which let me make these wonderful photographs. Couldn&#8217;t ask for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last stop of my day trip to Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral and the Roman Baths. Located in the city of Bath, the Roman Baths is a complex housing a temple and a public bath with naturally occurring hot water from the hotspring below. Today, the water is no longer safe for drinking\/bathing. Around&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/roman-baths\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roman Baths<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[87,84,85,86,83,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}