{"id":1394,"date":"2007-09-29T21:15:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T13:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2009-04-12T14:20:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T06:20:01","slug":"1389-of-rubber-fueled-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"[1389] Of rubber fuels the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in front of the Petronas Twin Towers is a building of less stature. It is the <em>Bangunan Getah Asli<\/em> (Natural Rubber Building, if I may translate it). While less widely known to the locals and foreigners alike, it has an interesting piece of art that praises activities concerning rubber production and its history that deserves greater attention in a art-deprived city of Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/20070929SculptureRubberBldgMacro.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is but one figure out of the larger piece:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/20070929SculptureRubberBldgWhole.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams.\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the way, these two photos are the first ever photos published on this blog which are captured by my Nikon D40. I love the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in front of the Petronas Twin Towers is a building of less stature. It is the Bangunan Getah Asli (Natural Rubber Building, if I may translate it). While less widely known to the locals and foreigners alike, it has an interesting piece of art that praises activities concerning rubber production and its history 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":[483,482],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-ingraving","tag-rubber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","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=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}