{"id":10956,"date":"2013-02-06T15:45:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=10956"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:45:53","slug":"dramatic-sunbursts-light-up-the-london-shard-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/dramatic-sunbursts-light-up-the-london-shard-skyscraper\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic sunbursts light up the London Shard skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There was a dramatic London skyline seen from Brixton today as the winter sun bounced off the Shard Tower, near London Bridge.<\/p>\n

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The tower cranes look almost ghostly in the light reflected off the\u00a0309.6 metres (1,016\u00a0ft) tall, glass-covered skyscraper.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the Mayor of London officially opened the panoramic viewing platform <\/a>on level 72 of the 310m (1,016ft) tower, with at least four men taking\u00a0advantage\u00a0of the stunning\u00a0location\u00a0to propose marriage\u00a0during\u00a0the day.<\/p>\n

The tickets aren’t cheap though, with an adult pass currently pegged at a painfully pricey \u00a324.95.<\/p>\n

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There was a dramatic London skyline seen from Brixton today as the winter sun bounced off the Shard Tower, near London Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[359,358,351],"class_list":["post-10956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-london-bridge","tag-shard","tag-skyscraper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sunlight-on-the-shard.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2QI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10960,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions\/10960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}