{"id":1152,"date":"2007-12-31T01:12:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/scenes-from-downtown-san-jose\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T01:19:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T06:19:26","slug":"scenes-from-downtown-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/scenes-from-downtown-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from downtown San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had occasion to be downtown on Sunday morning and decided to squeeze off a few frames. Among the highlights:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2150518335\/\" title=\"Marriott hotel in a water puddle by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2293\/2150518335_b1c62253e3.jpg\" alt=\"Marriott hotel in a water puddle\" height=\"500\" width=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thats the skinny tower of the Marriott Hotel reflected in a water puddle on Market Street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2150519153\/\" title=\"Ferris wheel, Sunday morning by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2064\/2150519153_e13d3c977a.jpg\" alt=\"Ferris wheel, Sunday morning\" height=\"367\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Down the street a ways, a Ferris wheel stands as part of the local Christmas in the Park festivities. Nothing  happening this early in the morning, of course. The city&#8217;s central park is full of cheesy Christmas displays and gazillion Christmas trees decorated by local school kids. The best parts are the animatronics, which look variously vapid and diabolical. To wit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2150520129\/\" title=\"Figurine by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2251\/2150520129_5104f563c2.jpg\" alt=\"Figurine\" height=\"370\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somebody&#8217;s cake&#8217;s making a run for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2150520955\/\" title=\"Elf by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2260\/2150520955_d9eddbbbb9.jpg\" alt=\"Elf\" height=\"416\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep your children away from this guy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2151312880\/\" title=\"Another figurine by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2156\/2151312880_a241a928fc.jpg\" alt=\"Another figurine\" height=\"399\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most evil of the bunch, if I do say so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2151313812\/\" title=\"Carolers by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2236\/2151313812_caffe3e55b.jpg\" alt=\"Carolers\" height=\"323\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I didn&#8217;t know she was supposed to be singing, well, I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;d think. (Well, I do but this is a family Web site.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2150522115\/\" title=\"City Hall by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2386\/2150522115_8909c80620.jpg\" alt=\"City Hall\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later I wandered over to San Jose&#8217;s City Hall, which always has promising photographic possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Great thing about downtown San Jose: you can take in all the highlights in about an hour&#8217;s walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had occasion to be downtown on Sunday morning and decided to squeeze off a few frames. Among the highlights: Thats the skinny tower of the Marriott Hotel reflected in a water puddle on Market Street. Down the street a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/scenes-from-downtown-san-jose\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}