{"id":1966,"date":"2017-12-04T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg"},"modified":"2017-12-05T18:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:21:43","slug":"gas-street-basin","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/day-3-birmingham-to-phepson-farm\/gas-street-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"gas-street-basin"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"class_list":["post-1966","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/a74kO9-vI","description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"73\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?fit=300%2C73\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?w=2500 2500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?resize=300%2C73 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?resize=1024%2C250 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?w=1600 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?w=2400 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-attachment-id=\"1966\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/day-3-birmingham-to-phepson-farm\/gas-street-basin\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?fit=2500%2C610\" data-orig-size=\"2500,610\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gas-street-basin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The pier or walkway you can see to the right of the picture is the Worcester Bar, which used to be a physical barrier in Gas Street Basin that separated the Worcester &amp;#038; Birmingham Canal from the older Birmingham Canal. The Birmingham Canal Company didn\u2019t want its water going to the \u201cdownstream\u201d Worcs &amp;#038; B\u2019ham (even in rain-soaked England, water is a precious commodity). Goods would be taken off a boat on one side of the bar and transferred to a boat on the other side. It wasn\u2019t until 1815 when a stop lock was installed on the bar that allowed boats to pass from one canal to another. Gas Street Basin is so named because it was the first area in Birmingham to be lit by gas lamps. From pictures I\u2019ve seen, the basin is still pretty by night but since I always went to bed early I never saw it.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?fit=300%2C73\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?fit=800%2C195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>The pier or walkway you can see to the right of the picture is the Worcester Bar, which used to be a physical barrier in Gas Street Basin that separated the Worcester &#038; Birmingham Canal from the older Birmingham Canal. The Birmingham Canal Company didn\u2019t want its water going to the \u201cdownstream\u201d Worcs &#038; B\u2019ham (even in rain-soaked England, water is a precious commodity). Goods would be taken off a boat on one side of the bar and transferred to a boat on the other side. It wasn\u2019t until 1815 when a stop lock was installed on the bar that allowed boats to pass from one canal to another. Gas Street Basin is so named because it was the first area in Birmingham to be lit by gas lamps. From pictures I\u2019ve seen, the basin is still pretty by night but since I always went to bed early I never saw it.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":2500,"height":610,"file":"2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"gas-street-basin-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?resize=150%2C150"},"medium":{"file":"gas-street-basin-300x73.jpg","width":300,"height":73,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?fit=300%2C73"},"large":{"file":"gas-street-basin-1024x250.jpg","width":1024,"height":250,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?fit=800%2C195"},"colormag-highlighted-post":{"file":"gas-street-basin-392x272.jpg","width":392,"height":272,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?resize=392%2C272"},"colormag-featured-post-medium":{"file":"gas-street-basin-390x205.jpg","width":390,"height":205,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?resize=390%2C205"},"colormag-featured-post-small":{"file":"gas-street-basin-130x90.jpg","width":130,"height":90,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?resize=130%2C90"},"colormag-featured-image":{"file":"gas-street-basin-800x445.jpg","width":800,"height":445,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?resize=800%2C445"},"full":{"file":"gas-street-basin.jpg?fit=2500%2C610","width":2500,"height":610,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg?fit=2500%2C610"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":1964,"source_url":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gas-street-basin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"post","id":1964,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}