{"id":1767,"date":"2007-09-27T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/27\/nondorky-poll-silver-and-gold\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T07:57:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T07:57:37","slug":"nondorky-poll-silver-and-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/27\/nondorky-poll-silver-and-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Dorky Poll: Silver and Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Silver Pavilion:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-5576f078febd1d5991af71ec2fbd6b0a-sm_silver_pavilion.jpg\" alt=\"i-5576f078febd1d5991af71ec2fbd6b0a-sm_silver_pavilion.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Golden Pavilion:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-8040be0ef63c400bc50306b825ad6216-sm_golden_pavilion.jpg\" alt=\"i-8040be0ef63c400bc50306b825ad6216-sm_golden_pavilion.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which do you like better?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I actually have much better pictures of the Golden Pavilion (which can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11070535@N08\/sets\/72157602125312018\/\">Flickr<\/a>), but this is about as good as the Silver Pavilion shots get (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11070535@N08\/sets\/72157601955029164\/\">this set<\/a>), so to make it a fair comparison, I went with the picture above. I&#8217;m also inordinately amused by pictures of other people taking pictures of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>To answer a question raised in the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/nondorky_poll_giant_buddha_sma.php\">previous poll<\/a>, this is &#8220;non-dorky&#8221; because it&#8217;s about making aesthetic judgements, not science stuff. As any smarmy art history major can tell you, science is for dorks, and dorks are incapable of making real aesthetic judgements&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Silver Pavilion: The Golden Pavilion: Which do you like better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}