{"id":2594,"date":"2018-03-02T21:32:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T21:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2018-03-02T21:34:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T21:34:44","slug":"design-puzzles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=2594","title":{"rendered":"Design Puzzles (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I wondered what these benches were all about:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4040-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Benches at Stratford International\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4040-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4040-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4040-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_4040.jpg 1219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They appear at a number of London and South-East railway stations, and when I first saw them I thought they were a bizarre and out of keeping design decision. Why choose something in such bright, primary-ish colours against a generally muted design scheme. They wouldn&#8217;t be out of keeping somewhere&#8212;but, not here! And after a couple of years it suddenly struck me&#8212;they are the olympic rings, that hung up at St. Pancras during the games, sliced and turned into benches! My supposition is <a href=\"https:\/\/londonist.com\/2016\/08\/what-happened-to-london-s-olympic-rings\">confirmed by Londonist<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I wondered what these benches were all about: They appear at a number of London and South-East railway stations, and when I first saw them I thought they were a bizarre and out of keeping design decision. Why choose something in such bright, primary-ish colours against a generally muted design scheme. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[14,20,53],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}