{"id":1970,"date":"2014-03-09T14:35:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T14:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2014-03-09T14:35:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T14:35:02","slug":"were-all-domed-domed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re all domed&#8230; domed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve sent several people postcards with photos that look like <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d4\/Supertree_Grove%2C_Gardens_by_the_Bay%2C_Singapore_-_20120630-04.jpg\">this<\/a>.  They were too good to pass up even though I had no idea what that was.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out they are &#8216;The Supertrees&#8217;, sculptures amongst the landscaping at a new tourist attraction called &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gardens_by_the_Bay\">Gardens by the Bay<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>The supertrees don&#8217;t look like much up close, and we didn&#8217;t actually see very much of the garden due to the inescapable allure of domes.  And, what domes they were!<\/p>\n<p>The first dome had a cloud forest climate, very cool and misty.  There were several elevated walkways and a lot of crazy landscaping, but the thing that most caught my eye were the many bog plants &#8212; pitchers, flytraps, orchids, all kinds of alien-looking things.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1970 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1973'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay02-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1974'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1975'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay04-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1976'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay05-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1977'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay06-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1978'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay07-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1979'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay08-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1980'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay09-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1981'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay10-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?attachment_id=1982'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay11-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The second dome (&#8216;the Flower Dome&#8217;) did not have many flowers.  Better, lots of cactus and (for some reason) a whole lot of baobab trees, painstakingly transplanted from Senegal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay13.jpg\" alt=\"GardensByTheBay13\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay13.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay13-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay14.jpg\" alt=\"GardensByTheBay14\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay14.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay14-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay15.jpg\" alt=\"GardensByTheBay15\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay15.jpg 360w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay15-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay12.jpg\" alt=\"GardensByTheBay12\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay12.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/GardensByTheBay12-300x67.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve sent several people postcards with photos that look like this. They were too good to pass up even though I had no idea what that was. It turns out they are &#8216;The Supertrees&#8217;, sculptures amongst the landscaping at a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1970\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}