{"id":2819,"date":"2010-12-10T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2010-12-10T00:58:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T00:58:27","slug":"frozen-lake-in-st-jamess-park-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/frozen-lake-in-st-jamess-park-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen lake in St James&#8217;s Park, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/frozen-st-james-park-lake-1.jpg\" alt=\"Frozen lake in St James's Park, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britain has been gripped by a cold snap that is turning December into one of the coldest on record.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/frozen-st-james-park-lake-2.jpg\" alt=\"Frozen lake in St James's Park, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lake at \u00a0St. James&#8217;s Park &#8211; a 23 hectare (58 acre) park in Westminster &#8211; has been frozen over for many days (although there were a few small areas of\u00a0exposed\u00a0 water), so I grabbed a few shots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/frozen-st-james-park-lake-3.jpg\" alt=\"Frozen lake in St James's Park, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>St. James&#8217;s Park Lake has two small islands, known as Duck Island (named after \u00a0the lake&#8217;s collection of waterfowl), and West Island.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/frozen-st-james-park-lake-4.jpg\" alt=\"Frozen lake in St James's Park, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wintery trees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/frozen-st-james-park-lake-5.jpg\" alt=\"Frozen lake in St James's Park, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Drunk Brits love to stick traffic cones on their heads, and when the weather turns icy, lobbing them onto frozen lakes often seems to\u00a0elicit\u00a0a few LOLs.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._James's_Park\" target=\"_blank\">More about St James Park here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain has been gripped by a cold snap that is turning December into one of the coldest on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6838,"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":[194,17,193],"tags":[22,364],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-parks","tag-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/frozen-st-james-park-lake-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Jt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","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=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}