{"id":9013,"date":"2010-08-13T23:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T06:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/9013"},"modified":"2010-08-13T23:30:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T06:30:19","slug":"around-the-monplaisir-palace-at-peterhof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/9013","title":{"rendered":"Around the Monplaisir Palace at Peterhof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t take any photos of the Monplaisir Palace at Peterhof, but I did take some photos in the area around Monplaisir. As with the rest of Peterhof, fountains abounded, but the grounds were dotted with interesting buildings including the gazebo shown below. The quickest way back from Peterhof to the center of St. Peterburg turned out to be by hydrofoil which, I was told, operates something like an airplane wing. As the boat gains speed, the hydrofoil generates lift which raises the boat out of the water, reducing drag, and increasing speed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Fountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9024\" title=\"Fountain at Peterhof\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Peterhof-Fountain-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Fountain at Peterhof\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fountain at Peterhof<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE: Fountain at Peterhof (St. Petersburg, Russia), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Monplaisir-Fountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9026\" title=\"Stone Fountain near Monplaisir\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Monplaisir-Fountain-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Stone Fountain near Monplaisir\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stone Fountain near Monplaisir<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Stone Fountain\u00c2\u00a0near Monplaisir\u00c2\u00a0(St. Petersburg, Russia), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Monplaisir-Gazebo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9027\" title=\"Gazebo near Monplaisir\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Monplaisir-Gazebo-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Gazebo near Monplaisir\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Gazebo near Monplaisir<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Gazebo near Monplaisir\u00c2\u00a0(St. Petersburg, Russia), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hydrofoil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9029\" title=\"Hydrofoil\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hydrofoil-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Hydrofoil\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hydrofoil<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Hydrofoil (St. Petersburg, Russia), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t take any photos of the Monplaisir Palace at Peterhof, but I did take some photos in the area around Monplaisir. As with the rest of Peterhof, fountains abounded, but the grounds were dotted with interesting buildings including the gazebo shown below. The quickest way back from Peterhof to the center of St. Peterburg turned out to be by hydrofoil which, I was told, operates something like an airplane wing. As the boat gains speed, the hydrofoil generates lift which raises the boat out of the water, reducing drag, and increasing speed. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/9013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[166,238],"class_list":["post-9013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-baltic-vacation","tag-st-petersburg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-2ln","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}