{"id":10166,"date":"2010-06-22T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T00:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/22\/downtown-revisits\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T03:46:20","slug":"downtown-revisits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/22\/downtown-revisits\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown &ndash; Revisits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several days of gloomy weather for most of last week, the Sun finally broke in all its glory on Friday onwards, and the city enjoyed great light. That\u2019s one great thing about summers: the sun comes up as early as 4:30 AM and gets all bright at 5:00 AM \u2013 and only starts setting at 8:30 PM. Since I don\u2019t start work until 9 AM, that gives plenty of time to step out of the house early to take pictures and still be in time for work.:)<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a selection of pictures taken on various timings in and about Boston: including revisits to places I\u2019ve already explored, and also new spots too. The first post here will feature old places.:)<\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts State House and its distinctive 23-carat gold dome:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog2010bostonDSC_A0281MassStateHouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0281MassStateHouse.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog2010bostonDSC_A0281MassStateHouse\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0282-MassStateHouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0282MassStateHouse.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0282-MassStateHouse\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s Chapel, and its Sanctuary; and the Old South Meeting House:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0292-KingsChapelChurch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0292KingsChapelChurch.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0292-KingsChapelChurch\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0294-KingsChapelChurch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0294KingsChapelChurch.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0294-KingsChapelChurch\" width=\"275\" height=\"414\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0303-OldSouthMeetingHouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0303OldSouthMeetingHouse.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0303-OldSouthMeetingHouse\" width=\"275\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trinity Church, and another picture from its stunning Sanctuary:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0321-TrinityChurch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0321TrinityChurch.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0321-TrinityChurch\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0372-TrinityChurch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0372TrinityChurch.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0372-TrinityChurch\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Old\/New South Church:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0327-OldNewChurch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0327OldNewChurch.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0327-OldNewChurch\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Quincy Market:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0311-QuincyMarketPerformance\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0311QuincyMarketPerformance.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0311-QuincyMarketPerformance\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Customs House, and Faneuil Hall:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0317-CustomHouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0317CustomHouse.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0317-CustomHouse\" width=\"275\" height=\"414\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0310-FaneuilHall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0310FaneuilHall.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0310-FaneuilHall\" width=\"275\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several days of gloomy weather for most of last week, the Sun finally broke in all its glory on Friday onwards, and the city enjoyed great light. That\u2019s one great thing about summers: the sun comes up as early<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/22\/downtown-revisits\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Downtown &ndash; Revisits<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[469,137,363],"class_list":["post-10166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-cameras","category-traveling","tag-boston-2010","tag-d300","tag-sigma-18-250mm","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}