{"id":708,"date":"2007-11-06T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T12:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=708"},"modified":"2007-11-06T13:35:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T12:35:42","slug":"a-world-of-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"A world of wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londoneye.com\/\">London Eye<\/a> &#8211; which stands at 135 metres &#8211;  is now an iconic feature of the capital&#8217;s skyline and I&#8217;ve been on it several times. On a recent visit to Manchester, I found that this city now has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitmanchester.com\/WhatsOnDetail.aspx?ProductId=11012\">Wheel of Manchester<\/a> too, rising 60 metres. For a time, there was a wheel in Paris. Then, of course, there is the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologystudent.com\/culture1\/ferris1.htm\">ferris wheel in Vienna<\/a> &#8211; which I have ridden &#8211; which is a mere 34 metres.<br \/>\nIt seems as if wheels are becoming more popular. China already has a wheel which is much taller than the London Eye: the 160-metre Star of Nanchang beats the 135-metres of the London wheel.<br \/>\nNow it is planning an even bigger wheel: the Beijing Great Wheel &#8211; which began construction this week &#8211; will soar 208 metres (680 feet).<br \/>\nMore information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/china\/story\/0,,2205918,00.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The London Eye &#8211; which stands at 135 metres &#8211; is now an iconic feature of the capital&#8217;s skyline and I&#8217;ve been on it several times. On a recent visit to Manchester, I found that this city now has a Wheel of Manchester too, rising 60 metres. For a time, there was a wheel in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}