{"id":3184,"date":"2013-09-26T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2013\/09\/kings_cross_squ\/"},"modified":"2013-09-26T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:22:02","slug":"kings_cross_squ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/kings_cross_squ\/","title":{"rendered":"King&#8217;s Cross Square Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/9946795865\/\" title=\"King's Cross Square Open by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2882\/9946795865_6cf319cbda_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"King's Cross Square Open\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis morning King&#8217;s Cross Square was finally open.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/9946916993\/\" title=\"King's Cross Square Open 2 by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3788\/9946916993_403d5aa334_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"King's Cross Square Open 2\"><\/a><br \/>\nFor many months now, King&#8217;s Cross has been a construction site as first they built the new concourse, and then dismantled the ugly 1970s facade. Now the original frontage has been revealed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/9946801965\/\" title=\"Some Final &quot;Snagging&quot; At King's Cross Square by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3665\/9946801965_e6c08a33fb_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Some Final &quot;Snagging&quot; At King's Cross Square\"><\/a><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s still a bit of &#8220;snagging&#8221; to complete &#8211; workers rush to finish the last corner before the grand opening.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/9946924303\/\" title=\"King's Cross Square Lectern by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7380\/9946924303_6ed921a4f9_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"King's Cross Square Lectern\"><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve no idea who&#8217;ll be officially opening the square &#8211; but my money&#8217;s on Boris. This will be the lectern that they use anyway.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/9946836044\/\" title=\"New Healthy Fast Food by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7440\/9946836044_b996ec9af4_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"New Healthy Fast Food\"><\/a><br \/>\nThey continue to try to make us eat more healthily.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/9946864134\/\" title=\"There Are A Couple of Teething Problems by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5337\/9946864134_8232a78ff6_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"There Are A Couple of Teething Problems\"><\/a><br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s the odd teething problem.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/9946871294\/\" title=\"Coming Live With Living Statues by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5536\/9946871294_75a5fcff51_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Coming Live With Living Statues\"><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure quite why they hired so many living statues, but I suppose they needed a &#8220;thing.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/9946972593\/\" title=\"More Excited To See News Reporter Than New Square by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7452\/9946972593_4a59dea9b6_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"More Excited To See News Reporter Than New Square\"><\/a><br \/>\nEither way, the living statues alongside an actual news reporter seemed to be the most exciting thing for most commuters\/travellers\/passers-by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning King&#8217;s Cross Square was finally open. For many months now, King&#8217;s Cross has been a construction site as first they built the new concourse, and then dismantled the ugly 1970s facade. Now the original frontage has been revealed. There&#8217;s still a bit of &#8220;snagging&#8221; to complete &#8211; workers rush to finish the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}