{"id":649,"date":"2005-11-01T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=649"},"modified":"2006-10-08T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T15:29:45","slug":"667-of-traditional-malay-lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"[647] Of traditional Malay lamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Eid coming up, many Muslim Malays are taking the initiative to lighten up their home compound. My family is no exception &#8211; they&#8217;re placing traditional Malay lamps at the edges of our compound. Pretty but I rather not have them. To me, it&#8217;s a waste of energy and serves no practical purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention, unnecessary release of carbon dioxide too. And climate change and the sky is falling. Run!<\/p>\n<p>Still, I can only object but its my parents&#8217; money and they may choose however they want to spend it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/malayLamp.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I like the blurring of the background but I somewhat had hoped that the whole lamp would have been sharper.p\/s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dino.avdibeg.dk\/blog\/2005\/10\/pyramid-found-in-heart-of-bosnia.html\">pyramid in Bosnia<\/a>? (<a href=\"http:\/\/challenge.visualessence.nl\/C1339780254\/E20051031210431\/index.html\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/4395572.stm\">Greenpeace fined for reef damage<\/a>. Oh, the irony.<\/p>\n<p>p3\/s &#8211; by spaghetti monster in the sky&#8217;s name, <a href=\"http:\/\/wvs.topleftpixel.com\/archives\/photos_landscape\/051031_1348.shtml\">this DDOI&#8217;s is indescribable<\/a>. No word can do justice to this picture. Any word uttered to even praise this photo will be an understatement. Even more remarkable, the photo was taken from a moving platform. Impressed? I know I am.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of photo is why DDOI is my favorite &#8211; numero uno &#8211; right since the beginning of the photoblog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Eid coming up, many Muslim Malays are taking the initiative to lighten up their home compound. My family is no exception &#8211; they&#8217;re placing traditional Malay lamps at the edges of our compound. Pretty but I rather not have them. To me, it&#8217;s a waste of energy and serves no practical purpose. Not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-history-heritage","category-photography","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}