{"id":4159,"date":"2011-09-06T19:06:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T23:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/blog\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2011-09-08T07:26:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:26:54","slug":"cigarette-break-us-capitol-building-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/4159\/cigarette-break-us-capitol-building-washington-dc","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette Break; U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction on the United States Capitol began in 1793 by the request of President Washington (who originally planned to be buried in a tomb under it) and was built, destroyed, rebuilt, and expanded. Today it has 540 rooms, 658 windows, 850 doorways, and covers 175,170 square feet of ground space (about 4 acres). \u00a0The famous dome we see today was added to the building in the mid 1800s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4160\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2011\/09\/20110903-DSC_5245.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4160\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4160 [ftmt_id]  \" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2011\/09\/20110903-DSC_5245-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"Cigarette Break; U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2011\/09\/20110903-DSC_5245-640x425.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2011\/09\/20110903-DSC_5245-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2011\/09\/20110903-DSC_5245.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the West Front side of the Capitol Building (as seen from the National Mall)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction on the United States Capitol began in 1793 by the request of President Washington (who originally planned to be buried in a tomb under it) and was built, destroyed, rebuilt, and expanded. Today it has 540 rooms, 658 windows, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/4159\/cigarette-break-us-capitol-building-washington-dc\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[187,902,675,900,901,875],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-photography","tag-buildings","tag-congress","tag-government","tag-u-s-capitol-building","tag-u-s-government","tag-washington-dc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}