{"id":269,"date":"2008-07-02T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2008-07-02T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T11:35:00","slug":"greenwich-park-and-royal-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/greenwich-park-and-royal-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwich Park and Royal Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Greenwich Park and Royal Observatory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/greenwich-park-01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed a lovely picnic* in Greenwich Royal Park, which covers 183 acres of land originally laid out in the 17th century.&nbsp; (*before the braying yuppies turned up)<\/p>\n<p>Greenwich Park was once a hunting park and now forms one of the largest single green spaces in south east London. Enclosed as far back as 1433, it&#8217;s now part of the protected Greenwich World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Greenwich Park and Royal Observatory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/greenwich-park-03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking down at the The Queen&#8217;s House, Greenwich, which was built in 1614-1617 by architect Inigo Jones<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently altered by Jones around 1635 for Henrietta Maria, the House is now regarded as one of the most important buildings in architectural history, being Britain&#8217;s first consciously classical building. <\/p>\n<p>The Queen&#8217;s House is now both a grade I listed building and a Scheduled ancient monument. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Greenwich Park and Royal Observatory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/greenwich-park-06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lurking inside this 45-ton bronze-clad truncated cone is the new Peter Harrison Planetarium, a 120-seat digital laser planetarium, opened in May, 2007. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Greenwich Park and Royal Observatory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/greenwich-park-11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Old and new. Canary Wharf with the Royal Naval College in the foreground. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/greenwich-park-london.html\">More photos here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We enjoyed a lovely picnic* in Greenwich Royal Park, which covers 183 acres of land originally laid out in the 17th century.&nbsp; (*before the braying yuppies turned up) Greenwich Park &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[132,21],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-stuff","tag-greenwich","tag-walks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/greenwich-park-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}