{"id":10620,"date":"2012-08-31T17:56:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T09:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=10620"},"modified":"2012-08-31T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T10:01:02","slug":"2590-false-door-at-angkor-wat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=10620","title":{"rendered":"[2590] False door at Angkor Wat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a typical pattern used on a typical richly ornate false door. Given how various temples were built sometimes a century apart, I found the commonness as mildly surprising. It suggests innovation was really slow.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10621\" title=\"False door at Angkor Wat\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_2204.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Some rights reserved. Creative Commons 3.0. By Attribution. By Hafiz Noor Shams\"  border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_2204.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_2204.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_2204.jpg?resize=680%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_2204.jpg?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_2204.jpg?w=1740&amp;ssl=1 1740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But it is pretty nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>This is at Angkor Wat.<\/p>\n<p>I am unsure of its functions but my readings tell me that an actual door typically face east and the other false doors face the other three cardinal directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a typical pattern used on a typical richly ornate false door. Given how various temples were built sometimes a century apart, I found the commonness as mildly surprising. It suggests innovation was really slow. But it is pretty nonetheless. This is at Angkor Wat. I am unsure of its functions but my readings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17,9],"tags":[1537,70,1541],"class_list":["post-10620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-heritage","category-photography","category-travels","tag-angkor-wat","tag-architecture","tag-false-door"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10620"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10626,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}