{"id":33452,"date":"2020-04-23T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33452"},"modified":"2020-04-23T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:36:51","slug":"so-nearly-not-quite-blackpool-balloon-703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33452","title":{"rendered":"So Nearly, Not Quite! Blackpool Balloon 703"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we take another look at a photo which despite our best efforts didn\u2019t quite turn out as we had hoped! The intended subject this time is <strong>Blackpool Balloon 703<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The photos in this series will come under many different categories and this one comes in the \u201cwell, I thought I\u2019d be able to get the tram in that frame!\u201d. On a wet day in Blackpool and there are actually very few places you can keep dry whilst still taking photos but on 5th September 2008 I thought I\u2019d hit a good location at Gynn Square with the possibility of framing oncoming trams through the arch of Jubilee Gardens. <strong>703<\/strong> is in the 1980s Green and Cream livery complete with adverts for Builders Supplies (West Coast Ltd) and is working a service to Starr Gate in this attempted photo.<\/p>\n<p>On reflection maybe it would have been better to have taken the shot before the tram got that far as there seems to be a gap further north on the line but it was too late by the time the shutter was pressed for that with the tram not fitting between the arch anyway and a bush getting in way too! Ah, never mind, better luck next time!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33453\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33453\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33453\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33453\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33453\" title=\"703a-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/703a-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/703a-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/703a-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/703a-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we take another look at a photo which despite our best efforts didn\u2019t quite turn out as we had hoped! The intended subject this time is Blackpool Balloon 703.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33455,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33452\/revisions\/33455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}