{"id":157,"date":"2010-04-09T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T11:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2010-04-09T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T11:08:12","slug":"laben-lamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Laben \/ Lamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Laben is unremarkable to the uneducated visitor. A sprawling place of European architecture and friendly inhabitants, it spreads its two arms wide around the sparkling waters of the river Hess. It is a place of terraced housing and small corner cafes opening onto statued, cobbled plazas. The houses sit bright and inviting, occupants elsewhere busy with pleasure or palaver. It is a place perpetually steeped in the early hours of afternoon &#8211; the sleepy post-lunch haze drooping its thick fingers over all and sundry.  <\/p>\n<p>The city of Lamal is a place of industry and excess. A sprawling place of thumping bass echoing down trash-strewn alleyways, it spreads its two arms wide around the murky waters of the river Hess. It is a place of grinding gears underscoring the open moan of free-wheeling turbines. The houses sit dark and forbidding, occupants long gone to sleep or saturnalia. It is a place perpetually steeped in the early hours of morning &#8211; the thick post-midnight gloom spreading its cloying fingers over all and sundry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Laben is unremarkable to the uneducated visitor. A sprawling place of European architecture and friendly inhabitants, it spreads its two arms wide around the sparkling waters of the river Hess. It is a place of terraced housing and small corner cafes opening onto statued, cobbled plazas. The houses sit bright and inviting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}