{"id":1665,"date":"2014-04-01T14:06:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T18:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2018-11-12T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:36:47","slug":"venice-binoculars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1665","title":{"rendered":"Venice Binoculars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is billed as the &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Binoculars,&#8221; and they very well could be.\u00a0 Located on Main Street in Venice, California they were designed by Claus Oldenberg and Coosje vanBruggen.\u00a0 Quite the find, only negative is that I was there during a work protest.\u00a0 Fortunately for me there was no picket line.\u00a0 Not sure I could have crossed, I did grow up in Detroit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1666\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1666\" data-attachment-id=\"1666\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=1666\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg?fit=1800%2C1226\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1226\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;James J Hejl&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS REBEL T3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1396372016&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;21&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Venice Binoculars\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;14binocs &#8211; IMG_2482&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Venice Binoculars&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg?fit=145%2C99\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg?fit=494%2C336\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1666\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg?resize=300%2C204\" alt=\"binocs\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg?resize=300%2C204 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg?resize=1024%2C697 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg?resize=220%2C150 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg?resize=150%2C102 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg?w=1800 1800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14binocs.jpg?w=1600 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venice Binoculars<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is billed as the &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Binoculars,&#8221; 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