{"id":656,"date":"2004-07-14T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T22:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=656"},"modified":"2004-07-14T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2004-07-14T22:25:57","slug":"one-large-sundial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/07\/14\/one-large-sundial\/","title":{"rendered":"One Large Sundial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way home from Yreka for my sister&#8217;s birthday, I stopped by the Sundial Bridge in Redding, CA.  It is a very strange feeling seeing this gigantic foot bridge over the Sacramento river  in the middle of little old Redding.  Here are a few pictures:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/sundial1.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/sundial2.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/sundial4.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe bridge was designed by  Santiago Calatrava, who also designed the olympic stadium for the upcoming olympics in Rome.  On the summer solstice, the bridge acts as a large sundial.  I wonder if anthropologists 4000 years from now will wonder what we used this gigantic sundial for?<br \/>\nRuhRoh Update: Panos points out that the olympics are in Athens not Rome.  God am I an idiot these days: what was I thinking?  Also it is the roof of the stadium which is being designed by Calatrava, not the whole stadium.  See the comment section for some pictures of the stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way home from Yreka for my sister&#8217;s birthday, I stopped by the Sundial Bridge in Redding, CA. It is a very strange feeling seeing this gigantic foot bridge over the Sacramento river in the middle of little old Redding. Here are a few pictures: The bridge was designed by Santiago Calatrava, who also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/07\/14\/one-large-sundial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Large Sundial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}