{"id":93,"date":"2026-09-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/2026\/09\/17\/finding-the-shade-my-favourite-city-gardens\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:00:00","slug":"finding-the-shade-my-favourite-city-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/2026\/09\/17\/finding-the-shade-my-favourite-city-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the shade: my favourite city gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By two o\u2019clock in July the streets are too hot for anything but getting from one air-conditioned door to the next. So I go where the trees are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city has more green corners than people expect: terraced gardens on the hill, old courtyards with fig trees, and a long park that follows the seafront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where I go<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My favourite is the terraced garden on the hill, where the paths zigzag up through pines and you can see the whole bay between the branches. Bring a book, a big hat and more water than you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the afternoon heat arrives, I disappear into the gardens. These are the four with the best trees, the quietest benches and the best views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[43,45],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","tag-baku","tag-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/blaskan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}