{"id":4582,"date":"2016-12-11T03:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T03:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2023-07-13T03:46:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T03:46:37","slug":"hotel-de-ville-de-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/hotel-de-ville-de-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00f4tel de ville de San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/31191014830\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/1\/290\/31191014830_b8bcff869d.jpg\" alt=\"SF City Hall in red white &amp; blue\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stopped by City Hall today to find it&#8217;s still lit up in red white and blue in commemoration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElaineLeung4\/status\/806747433422045184?lang=en\">attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago.<\/a> It looked particularly dramatic set against the wild evening skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then I got to thinking about it: those three colors are pretty common choices for flags. In this case, the stripes of color seem to evoke France&#8217;s flag specifically. This evocation is compounded by the fact that SF City Hall is specifically built in the Beaux Arts style of French neoclassical architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So in the immortal words of Nicholas Cage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3K7GPKt9vIk\">&#8220;Vive la fuckin&#8217; France man!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by City Hall today to find it&#8217;s still lit up in red white and blue in commemoration of the attack on Pearl Harbor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"H\u00f4tel de ville de San Francisco - MrEricSir.com","description":"I stopped by City Hall today to find it's still lit up in red white and blue in commemoration of the attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago. It looked particularly"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[330,1180,1179,38],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-city-hall","tag-flags","tag-france","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9969,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions\/9969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}