{"id":55,"date":"2014-04-09T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/2014\/04\/09\/between-a-rock-and-a-wet-place\/"},"modified":"2014-04-09T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T14:26:00","slug":"between-a-rock-and-a-wet-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/between-a-rock-and-a-wet-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Between a rock and a wet place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday afternoon I left the office for lunch. With my food I walked into the public plaza behind 776 6th Avenue in search for a place to sit. On one side there were stainless steel chairs and tables: elevated, new, and shiny. Across from them were long red granite benches; low, unassuming, and blending with the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The metal furniture was clearly designed for durability, to be all things to all weather&#8211; but the irony is that&nbsp;the water had simply remained on the surface, coalesced in enormous droplets. They were waterproof, BUT STILL WET.<br \/>Meanwhile, the breathing stone had absorbed the water, letting it seep through its pores, until its surface was dry enough to sit on.<\/p>\n<p>My choice was simple.<\/p>\n<p>(Sounds very <a href=\"http:\/\/thesleepofrigour.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/24\/steen-eiler-rasmussen-experiencing-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steen Eiler Rasmussen-y<\/a>, doesn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-loAnlGk3SEM\/U0RD56JbHrI\/AAAAAAAABCE\/00LtArYA69I\/s1600\/2014.04.08_wet+steel+granite.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-loAnlGk3SEM\/U0RD56JbHrI\/AAAAAAAABCE\/00LtArYA69I\/s1600\/2014.04.08_wet+steel+granite.JPG\" height=\"640\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I left the office for lunch. With my food I walked into the public plaza behind 776 6th Avenue in search for a place to sit. On one side there were stainless steel chairs and tables: elevated, new, and shiny. Across from them were long red granite benches; low, unassuming, and blending with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[167,166],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","tag-rasmussen","tag-waterproof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}