{"id":833,"date":"2013-02-07T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T09:06:11","slug":"roma-st-parklands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"Roma St Parklands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 10-min train ride from here is a large park, Roma St Parklands. For some reason, until today I had never been there &#8212; Roma St station is more associated with the morning commuter rush than pleasant surroundings. How wrong I was. The parklands are lovely. A botanical garden right next to a busy traffic interchange, covering acres of well-tended plants and flowers on the edge of the CBD.  Here&#8217;s a taste. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-174911.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-174911.jpg\" alt=\"20130207-174911.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-173209.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-173209.jpg\" alt=\"20130207-173209.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-1728481.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-1728481.jpg\" alt=\"20130207-172848.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-1732531.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-1732531.jpg\" alt=\"20130207-173253.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-173228.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-173228.jpg\" alt=\"20130207-173228.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-1732431.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130207-1732431.jpg\" alt=\"20130207-173243.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 10-min train ride from here is a large park, Roma St Parklands. For some reason, until today I had never been there &#8212; Roma St station is more associated with the morning commuter rush than pleasant surroundings. How wrong I was. The parklands are lovely. A botanical garden right next to a busy traffic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=833\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roma St Parklands<\/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-833","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\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}