{"id":90,"date":"2008-02-20T00:47:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/2008\/02\/20\/wall-sabean-temple-yeha-tigray-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T00:47:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:47:24","slug":"wall-sabean-temple-yeha-tigray-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/wall-sabean-temple-yeha-tigray-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall, Sabean Temple, Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia, October 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/gallery\/2007_eth_yeha_wall01.jpg\" title=\"Wall, Sabean Temple, Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia\" alt=\"Wall, Sabean Temple, Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia\" height=\"640\" width=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is not the most exciting photograph you have seen, but it is of a most remarkable building&#8211;the Sabean temple at Yeha, contemporary with the nearby tower (the oldest standing structure in Ethiopia) and built to an exacting standard, with hand-cut blocks cut so regular that they fit together without mortar, leaving too little room between them to shove a dime. A really splendid piece of craftsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I found the cable in my camera bag&#8211;right where it should have been, had I not empied out all the camera equipment to the shelf where it lives when I am not travelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this is not the most exciting photograph you have seen, but it is of a most remarkable building&#8211;the Sabean temple at Yeha, contemporary with the nearby tower (the oldest standing structure in Ethiopia) and built to an exacting standard, with hand-cut blocks cut so regular that they fit together without mortar, leaving too little &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/wall-sabean-temple-yeha-tigray-ethiopia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wall, Sabean Temple, Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia, October 2007&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}