{"id":103,"date":"2011-03-28T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2011-03-28T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T02:30:07","slug":"outdoor-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the <a title=\"Burblechaz\" href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\">Obsessive Cyclist <\/a>was climbing a mountain again, I wandered through the Botanical Gardens and found an extra bonus: an outdoor concert in progress, courtesy of Brisbane City Council, and stopped to spend a very pleasant hour sitting on the grass listening to Australian composers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/concert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-107\" title=\"Outdoor Concert\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/concert-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/concert-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/concert-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/concert.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notice the toy kangaroo on the stage, holding an Australian flag?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Afterwards, the Japanese Gardens are always a relaxing sight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japanese_garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-104\" title=\"Japanese Garden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japanese_garden-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japanese_garden-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japanese_garden-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japanese_garden.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excellent reflections on a calm day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These lizards found it relaxing, too, especially on stones conveniently warmed by the sun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lizards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-105\" title=\"Lizards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lizards-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lizards-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lizards-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lizards.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, *two* lizards in this shot. Can you spot the second one?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To round off the wildlife sightings, a young bird scratching happily, completely ignoring people. Not sure what it is when it&#8217;s grown up &#8212; a lyre bird of some kind?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lyre_bird_chick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-106\" title=\"Young Bird\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lyre_bird_chick-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lyre_bird_chick-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lyre_bird_chick-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lyre_bird_chick-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/lyre_bird_chick.jpg 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There&#39;s something interesting here...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Obsessive Cyclist was climbing a mountain again, I wandered through the Botanical Gardens and found an extra bonus: an outdoor concert in progress, courtesy of Brisbane City Council, and stopped to spend a very pleasant hour sitting on the grass listening to Australian composers. Afterwards, the Japanese Gardens are always a relaxing sight. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Outdoor Concert<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}