{"id":1264,"date":"2007-06-13T21:28:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2009-05-02T14:29:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T06:29:45","slug":"1259-of-steel-beams-of-the-old-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"[1259] Of steel beams of the old railway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I wrote earlier that I would love <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1263\">to discuss<\/a> about the Asian financial crisis but I have been busy. Two papers are due and I need to find some motivation to finish it. Hence, this blog has been left idle for the past, roughly, 60 hours. I know that the last time that happened was when I went hiking in <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1203\">Endau Rompin<\/a>. I also know that visitors tend to flee dead blogs.<\/p>\n<p>So, let me share with you a simple photo from my latest excursion in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/20070609OldKLRailwayStInside.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"1\" alt=\"By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/kl.metblogs.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/the_first_blogger_to_climb_the.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">climb the staircase<\/a> of one of the towers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=772\">old railway station<\/a>. Though I was quite excited to be able to get to the top of it, knowing that not too many people get to do what I did, I am disappointed to see the decaying state of such a marvelous and historical structure.<\/p>\n<p>More than 10 years ago, this place used to be busy even beyond midnight. There was life. Nowadays, I think robbery could take place here in broad daylight without too many people realizing it before it would be too late. Sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I wrote earlier that I would love to discuss about the Asian financial crisis but I have been busy. Two papers are due and I need to find some motivation to finish it. Hence, this blog has been left idle for the past, roughly, 60 hours. I know that the last time that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-kuala-lumpur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","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=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}