{"id":1083,"date":"2012-03-09T17:47:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T22:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2012-03-09T17:47:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T22:47:49","slug":"the-norwegian-lady-of-virginia-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"The Norwegian Lady of Virginia Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the Norwegian Lady Statues may be found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norwegian_Lady\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norwegian_Lady<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ventured down to the oceanfront today, in the cold. So cold that I actually saw flurries at the beginning of my photo journey. I didn&#8217;t get pictures of King Neptune this time, but that, too, will change.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian Lady:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-norweiganlady1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1085 aligncenter\" title=\"2-norweiganlady1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-norweiganlady1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-norweiganlady1.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2-norweiganlady1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and her memorial plaque:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-norweiganlady2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1084\" title=\"1-norweiganlady2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-norweiganlady2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-norweiganlady2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-norweiganlady2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full frontal shot is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_1326.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1086\" title=\"1-IMG_1326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_1326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_1326.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_1326-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The topmost plaque under the Lady is cast with a sailing ship and the inscription:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am the Norwegian Lady. I stand here, as my sister before me, to wish all men of the sea safe return home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The brass plaque (with the green patina) is the &#8220;In Memoriam&#8221; of the sailors aboard the barque &#8220;Dictator&#8221; who perished March 27, 1891.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Blue, who always remembers the beauty and the fury of the ocean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the Norwegian Lady Statues may be found at: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norwegian_Lady I ventured down to the oceanfront today, in the cold. So cold that I actually saw flurries at the beginning of my photo journey. I didn&#8217;t get pictures of King Neptune this time, but that, too, will change. The Norwegian Lady: and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[288,444,443,151],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-canon","tag-norwegian-lady","tag-rebel-t3i","tag-virginia-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}