{"id":895,"date":"2013-12-31T06:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2013-12-31T06:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:09:56","slug":"galveston-historical-architecture-bishops-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/galveston-historical-architecture-bishops-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Galveston Historical Architecture (&#8220;Bishops Palace&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much to enjoy in Galveston, only an hour&#8217;s drive from Houston, Texas. This &#8216;Palace&#8217;, just one example, took six years to build. Made to order for a military man who later became a U.S. Congressman, it was completed in 1893, with 52 rooms. (The wooden staircase alone took three years.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-896\" alt=\"167\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/167.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-898 aligncenter\" alt=\"083_1\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/083_1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-901\" alt=\"095\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/095.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-899\" alt=\"090\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/090.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You just want to pinch those cheeks of the moulded sculptures. Don&#8217;t worry, this lion won&#8217;t bite.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-902\" alt=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/125.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-903\" alt=\"128\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/128.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stained glass in this mansion abounds. With its own unique beauty, it is specially protected from famous Galveston hurricane winds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-904 aligncenter\" alt=\"119\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/119.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-905\" alt=\"120\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/120.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much to enjoy in Galveston, only an hour&#8217;s drive from Houston, Texas. This &#8216;Palace&#8217;, just one example, took six years to build. Made to order for a military man who later became a U.S. Congressman, it was completed in 1893, with 52 rooms. (The wooden staircase alone took three years.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-896\" alt=\"167\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/167.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-898 aligncenter\" alt=\"083_1\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/083_1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-901\" alt=\"095\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/095.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-899\" alt=\"090\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/090.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You just want to pinch those cheeks of the moulded sculptures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}