{"id":5092,"date":"2013-02-11T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2013-02-11T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T01:30:10","slug":"our-beautiful-hawaiian-state-capitol-if-they-just-would-clean-it-once-in-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=5092","title":{"rendered":"Our Beautiful Hawaiian State Capitol (if they just would clean it once in a while&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaiian State Capitol presents itself to the visitors in all its beauty.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/8\/1\/hawaii-state-capitol-01.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It was built to resemble a volcano, surrounded by an ocean, with columns like coconut trees.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/8\/1\/hawaii-state-capitol-03.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Our ocean is in similar shape I think.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/8\/1\/hawaii-state-capitol-04-algae.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\nAs you walk around the State Capitol you see the &#8220;Volcano&#8221; is crumbling in the surrounding water, just like Kauai, which makes me think the capitol is about 5 million years old.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/8\/1\/hawaii-state-capitol-05.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I know, hard to see on the previous photo, that&#8217;s why I zoomed in.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/8\/1\/hawaii-state-capitol-06-volcano-crumbeling.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>State seal, original with chains and bird poop. The translation of the text means &#8220;The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness&#8221;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/8\/1\/hawaii-state-capitol-07-birdpoop.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It looks nice from that angle, but for a slightly different perspective from the same point I aimed the camera at the water and zoomed a bit&#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/8\/1\/hawaii-state-capitol-09.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the water is filthy, trash floating and the next photo shows&#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/8\/1\/hawaii-state-capitol-10-trash-floating.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;a dead bird<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/8\/1\/hawaii-state-capitol-11.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaiian State Capitol presents itself to the visitors in all its beauty. It was built to resemble a volcano, surrounded by an ocean, with columns like coconut trees. Our ocean is in similar shape I think. As you walk around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}