{"id":179,"date":"2007-08-03T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2007-08-03T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T03:05:00","slug":"new-yorkbay-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/new-yorkbay-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Bay Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/verrazano.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/verrazano.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Rodman Gun and Verrazano Narrows Bridge, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Continuing work on a series of photographs of Civil War monuments and statues I took the R train to the end of the line. This is Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, a prosperous part of the city I&#8217;d never visited before. At the foot of 4th Avenue is John Paul Jones park adjacent to Fort Hamilton, a historic army base. In the park is a surviving <\/span><a style=\"font-family: arial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clpgh.org\/exhibit\/neighborhoods\/strip\/strip_n41.html\"target=\"_blank\">Rodman Gun<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, a massive cast iron cannon used to defend New York Harbor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: arial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/cannon.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/cannon.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Rodman Gun<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I was there for for almost two hours waiting for a stubborn ridge of clouds to slip by, and then had less than a half hour to catch the last slanting sunlight. I did a couple of pictures with the Verrazano Bridge in the background, a couple closeups of the cannon and cannonballs. A few dog walkers strolled by. Lots of bicyclists and joggers cruised by. A group of beer drinking homeless occupied a bench nearby. Some kids arrived and began climbing the cannon, but I had already packed up my 4&#215;5 camera. I snapped a few shots with my digital camera. The whole excursion to Bay Ridge took more than five hours.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodman Gun and Verrazano Narrows Bridge, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Continuing work on a series of photographs of Civil War monuments and statues I took the R train to the end of the line. This is Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, a prosperous part of the city I&#8217;d never visited before. At the foot of 4th Avenue is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}