{"id":248,"date":"2011-03-31T18:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T17:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=248"},"modified":"2011-03-31T19:29:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:29:19","slug":"armchair-location-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Armchair Location Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt about it, choosing and researching <strong>awesome places<\/strong> in which to <strong>set scenes of<\/strong> <strong>stories<\/strong> is a <em>lot <\/em>easier in the internet age. This week I was lucky enough to stumble across <a href=\"http:\/\/tender.is\/the.night\"><strong>TENDER.IS\/THE.NIGHT<\/strong><\/a>, an astonishing <strong>urban exploration \/ photography <\/strong>site. Hit the link and prepare to be amazed. Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tender-royal-albert-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249  aligncenter\" title=\"tender-royal-albert-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tender-royal-albert-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tender-royal-albert-5.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tender-royal-albert-5-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Bridge,_London\"><strong>Albert Bridge<\/strong><\/a>. What I&#8217;m writing isn&#8217;t set there &#8211; this time! &#8211; but a key scene of my current story takes place at a location (I won&#8217;t tell you which, yet!) that has been explored and beautifully photographed on the site. On the off-chance he sees this I&#8217;d like to take this chance to offer my thanks, appreciation and respect to <a href=\"http:\/\/tender.is\/the.night\"><strong>TENDER.IS\/THE.NIGHT<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s creator for his physical intrepidity, his evocative writing and his jaw-dropping camera skills.<\/p>\n<p>Also while I&#8217;m here, here are two links to things I&#8217;ve posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\"><strong>TBM<\/strong><\/a> about wonderful <strong>comics<\/strong> I&#8217;ve been reading recently: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\/2011\/03\/a-confession-2\"><strong>Twin Spica <\/strong>by <strong>Kou Yaginouma<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\/2011\/03\/and-what-has-sunk-may-rise-again\"><strong>The Lovecraft Anthology Volume 1<\/strong> edited by <strong>Dan Lockwood<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt about it, choosing and researching awesome places in which to set scenes of stories is a lot easier in the internet age. This week I was lucky enough to stumble across TENDER.IS\/THE.NIGHT, an astonishing urban exploration \/ photography site. Hit the link and prepare to be amazed. Here&#8217;s a taste: This is Albert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}