It’s all splashes and sparkles and plenty of civic bling at Henley Square now that the construction work is complete.<\/p>\n
On a hot summer evening children play in the open-air water feature while an aerial light-show plays above.<\/p>\n
People mingle after dinner in one of the restaurants discussing their meal, their day or choosing which bar to head on to. <\/p>\n
As pretty as it all is now this wonderful civic facility has had its casualties. During construction businesses suffered, some did not recover.<\/p>\n
I loved coming down here before and I love coming down here now. I’m really not sure if the pain was all worth it but I hope at least they keep Henley Square’s new bling polished, splashy and sparkling.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Splashes and Sparkles’, 2s f\/9 ISO1000 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s all splashes and sparkles and plenty of civic bling at Henley Square now that the construction work is complete. On a hot summer evening children play in the open-air water feature while an aerial light-show plays above. People mingle after dinner in one of the restaurants discussing their meal, their day or choosing which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[962,1334,1340,1336,1333,66,1044,104,1337,1339,1338,345,1335],"class_list":["post-5759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-children","tag-civic","tag-development","tag-fountains","tag-henley","tag-henleybeach","tag-henleysquare","tag-lighting","tag-playing","tag-sparkling","tag-splashing","tag-water","tag-waterfeatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759","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=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions\/5761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}