{"id":868,"date":"2015-09-24T19:23:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2015-09-24T19:23:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:23:59","slug":"grand-central-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Grand Central &#8211; Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popped into the new station and shopping centre &#8216;Grand Central&#8217; in Birmingham today to grab a few snaps. Its a pretty stunning place, well worth a visit. The first pic is a before and after with a photo I happened to take the first week I had a digital camera, many years ago. 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Its a pretty stunning place, well worth a visit. The first pic&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/?p=868\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grand Central &#8211; Birmingham<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Grand-Central-07.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbpblog.matthewbrown-photography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}