{"id":5714,"date":"2018-02-21T07:04:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T07:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2023-07-12T21:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:51:18","slug":"view-from-griffith-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/view-from-griffith-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"View from Griffith Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/40348193822\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4651\/40348193822_a63b668c27.jpg\" alt=\"Griffith Observatory\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before leaving Los Angeles last night I figured I had to take one last look at the city. Although Griffith Observatory was technically closed, the area around it was as open as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to everyone I spoke with the main attraction is not the observatory itself, but rather the view from the area on the hill around it. So it didn&#8217;t bother me that the observatory was closed, but the DASH bus service up to it was concerning. Not only did it run infrequently but I&#8217;d barely heard of DASH before. As it turns out my concerns were unwarranted &#8212; DASH service runs in weird spots, costs very little, and they accept LA Metro&#8217;s TAP card as payment. Not knowing this I paid far more for a Lyft ride up to the top of the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/38582592210\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4740\/38582592210_2040ab3bbc.jpg\" alt=\"Griffith Observatory\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the hill on Griffith Observatory one can easily spot many landmarks. The Hollywood sign is in the distance, as is downtown Los Angeles. On the way up the hill I began to worry about the views &#8212; the city had become engulfed in clouds. Yet from such a high vantage point, those clouds only served to frame the city down below as an contrast to the weather patterns above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a T-Mobile subscriber I&#8217;m used to the occasional odd spot where there&#8217;s no coverage. Griffith Observatory proved to be one of such spots; at first I wondered if it would be best to wait for the DASH bus down the hill, but eventually I discovered that even while closed, Griffith Observatory provides a free wifi hotspot. Using this I requested a Lyft from there to LAX. It&#8217;s a long ride but my driver was cool about it. Better for him than those short, cheap rides anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before leaving Los Angeles last night I figured I had to take one last look at the city. Although Griffith Observatory was technically closed, the [&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":"View from Griffith Observatory - MrEricSir.com","description":"Before leaving Los Angeles last night I figured I had to take one last look at the city. Although Griffith Observatory was technically closed, the area around i"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1277,1250,222,1278],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-griffith-observatory","tag-los-angeles","tag-travel","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714","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=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9923,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions\/9923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}