{"id":899,"date":"2009-07-06T08:34:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T12:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=899"},"modified":"2015-12-27T14:31:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T19:31:06","slug":"water-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/07\/water-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! This is just mesmerizing and perfect for a hot, summer Monday. Fantastic water graphics found in a Japanese Mall. Those are some water jets with precision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/07\/japanese-mall-fountain.wmv\">japanese-mall-fountain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another thing that required tremendous precision and that I found mesmerizing was watching the Fourth of July Fireworks all coordinated to various musical pieces on the East River in New York. Although we are typically down on the VA side of the Potomac watching the fireworks there and have been for the last 22 years, this was the first year that my husband fully gave over the tradition to our older son. It has just become too difficult to park and unload gear, making it not as comfortable as it had been. Piers commanded a large crowd of his college friends and they had a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"NYC Fireworks on jinners.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jinners.com\/archive\/2008_07_01_old.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-905\" title=\"nyc fireworks via jinners.com blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/07\/nycfireworks.jpg\" alt=\"nyc fireworks via jinners.com blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/nycfireworks.jpg 732w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/nycfireworks-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! This is just mesmerizing and perfect for a hot, summer Monday. Fantastic water graphics found in a Japanese Mall. 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Piers commanded a large crowd of his college friends and they had a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,69,90],"tags":[217,634],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-design","category-family","tag-fireworks","tag-water-mall-fountain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Water Works<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Water Works a mall fountain on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/07\/water-works\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Water Works\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Water Works a mall fountain on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/07\/water-works\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-07-06T12:34:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T19:31:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/07\/nycfireworks.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/07\\\/water-works\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/07\\\/water-works\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Water Works\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-07-06T12:34:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T19:31:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/07\\\/water-works\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":137,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/07\\\/water-works\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/\\\/2009\\\/07\\\/nycfireworks.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"fireworks\",\"water mall fountain\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Celebrations &amp; 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