{"id":442,"date":"2013-04-26T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=442"},"modified":"2013-04-26T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:02:00","slug":"442","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/442\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know the sinking cities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Italy&#8217;s Venice is the best known sinking city, but did you know that there are many others as well including Bangkok and Mexico City<\/li>\n<li>The buildings of Venice are built on closely spaced wooden pilings which have petrified over the centuries in the oxygen-poor water of the lagoon to become like stone<\/li>\n<li>Contrary to popular belief the gondolas of Venice are &#8220;rowed&#8221; with a forward stroke and then a backward stroke and not &#8220;&#8221;poled&#8221;&#8221; off the bottom as the water is too deep\n<\/li>\n<li>Amsterdam, Brugge, and St. Petersburg have all been called the &#8220;Venice of the North&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>Bangkok was once called the &#8220;Venice of the East&#8221; though many canals have now been filled in\n<\/li>\n<li>Venezuela means &#8220;Little Venice&#8221; and was so named by explorers who found houses sitting over water supported by poles\n<\/li>\n<li>Gondolas are used mainly by tourists and are not a practical means of transportation\n<\/li>\n<li>The oldest film festival in the world began in 1932 in Venice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s Venice is the best known sinking city, but did you know that there are many others as well including Bangkok and Mexico City The buildings of Venice are built on closely spaced wooden pilings which have petrified over the centuries in the oxygen-poor water of the lagoon to become &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}