{"id":9120,"date":"2005-06-20T10:44:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T07:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/20\/building-arrow\/"},"modified":"2005-10-04T07:34:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T04:34:30","slug":"building-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/20\/building-arrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Building arrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href='\/wordpress\/wp-content\/building_arrow.jpg'><img class='centered' src='\/wordpress\/wp-content\/thumb-building_arrow.jpg' alt='Building arrow' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of a few office buildings that I pass every time walking with Maxim.  For some reason only this building touches my feelings.  It seems so solid and straight that I feel the urge to distort it somehow.  I was trying to convince myself that this building is no different than any other, that all of them have straight lines, squares, angles.  But I couldn&#8217;t.  So, today I decided photograph it using a wide angle lens that would provide  enough distortion for me to feel satisfied.  When I saw the picture at home, I was surprised to see that the distorted building looks like an arrow.<\/p>\n<p>Album location: <a href=\"\/photos\/2005\/2005-06-20_POTD\">\/photos\/2005\/2005-06-20_POTD<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>This is one of a few office buildings that I pass every time walking with Maxim. For some reason only this building touches my feelings. It seems so solid and straight that I feel the urge to distort it somehow. I was trying to convince myself that this building is no different than any other, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/20\/building-arrow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Building arrow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22,109,30],"tags":[48],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","category-limassol","category-photography","tag-potd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8824,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/14\/the-man-behind-the-fedex-logo\/","url_meta":{"origin":9120,"position":0},"title":"The Man Behind the FedEx Logo","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 14, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is an interesting interview with the guy who designed the logo for FedEx. 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