{"id":1907,"date":"2014-04-14T19:38:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T09:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2015-01-13T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T02:59:41","slug":"day-835-birkenhead-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"Day 835, Birkenhead Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have always been fascinated by Port Adelaide’s Birkenhead Bridge.<\/p>\n

The idea that a bridge can decide to not be a bridge anymore, open up to let tall ships through and then transform back into a bridge again seemed to me to be a marvel of engineering.<\/p>\n

To be fair I was only a child at the time and up until that realisation a bridge was a bridge, was a bridge, was a bridge!<\/p>\n

My experience of a transforming bridge must seem so naive in this day of mechanical transformers such as Optimus Prime, Megatron and Bumblebee.<\/p>\n

To me however, Port Adelaide’s Birkenhead Bridge will always be the original transformer! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 835, Birkenhead Bridge’, 1\/8000s f16 ISO100 130mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have always been fascinated by Port Adelaide’s Birkenhead Bridge. The idea that a bridge can decide to not be a bridge anymore, open up to let tall ships through and then transform back into a bridge again seemed to me to be a marvel of engineering. To be fair I was only a child […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}