{"id":480,"date":"2010-06-17T23:04:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=480"},"modified":"2010-06-17T23:04:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:04:18","slug":"parkour-in-macquarie-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/06\/17\/parkour-in-macquarie-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkour in Macquarie Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10jJUN17-cP1090073-Parkour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-481\" title=\"10jJUN17-cP1090073 Parkour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10jJUN17-cP1090073-Parkour-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10jJUN17-cP1090073-Parkour-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10jJUN17-cP1090073-Parkour-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Macquarie Visions is a series of light installations on buildings in Sydney that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153celebrate the 200th anniversary of Australian visionaries Governor Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the ultimate Sydney power couple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/vividsydney.com\/events\/macquarie-visions\/macquarie-visions \">Vivid Sydney <\/a>Festival.<\/p>\n<p>We went along to have a look one night last week when the rain had abated, but as we watched the coloured words and pictures play over the fa\u00c3\u00a7ade of the Conservatorium of Music, I realised we were standing on what was, to me, a more interesting piece of text \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em><strong>Parkour is sexy<\/strong><\/em>. It was not easy to photograph in the dark with my little camera, but I had to have it. Pavement graffiti this large is unusual in the centre of the city.<\/p>\n<p>How long ago was it painted? Was it done to celebrate some parkour event? And the big question \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is parkour really sexy? For whom \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the perpetrators or the spectators?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10jJUN17-cP1090075-IsSexy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-482\" title=\"10jJUN17-cP1090075 IsSexy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10jJUN17-cP1090075-IsSexy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10jJUN17-cP1090075-IsSexy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/10jJUN17-cP1090075-IsSexy-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie Visions is a series of light installations on buildings in Sydney that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153celebrate the 200th anniversary of Australian visionaries Governor Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the ultimate Sydney power couple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as part of the Vivid Sydney Festival. We went along to have a look one night last week when the rain had abated, but <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/06\/17\/parkour-in-macquarie-street\/#more-480\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,86],"tags":[3,7],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city","category-events","tag-graffiti","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}