{"id":8917,"date":"2012-12-24T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T13:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=8917"},"modified":"2012-12-24T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T13:18:11","slug":"assisi-fountain-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/assisi-fountain-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Assisi fountain then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/assisi_fountain_then_now.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8918\" title=\"assisi_fountain_then_now\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/assisi_fountain_then_now.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"1029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/assisi_fountain_then_now.jpg 757w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/assisi_fountain_then_now-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/assisi_fountain_then_now-753x1024.jpg 753w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/assisi_fountain_then_now-624x848.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/a> These photographs of Assisi&#8217;s urban landscape and architecture were taken about 80 years apart. It&#8217;s great to see how little has changed (probably &#8216;thanks to St Francis&#8217; for attracting tourists) but the changes seem to be for the worse: cars, masts for\u00a0 TVs and phones, ugly street signs, heritage lighting, extra downpipes, less picturesque clothing, some odd castellations (top right).\u00a0 Readers are invited to contribute &#8216;then and now&#8217; pairs of illustrations so that we can keep an eye on how gardens, parks, urban landscapes and rural landscapes are changing.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope we can find some examples of things getting better.<\/p>\n<p>(2012 photo of Assisi courtesy of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prestonrhea\/\">preston rhea<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These photographs of Assisi&#8217;s urban landscape and architecture were taken about 80 years apart. It&#8217;s great to see how little has changed (probably &#8216;thanks to St Francis&#8217; for attracting tourists) but the changes seem to be for the worse: cars, masts for\u00a0 TVs and phones, ugly street signs, heritage lighting, extra downpipes, less picturesque clothing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}