{"id":551,"date":"2011-01-26T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2011-01-26T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:17:21","slug":"lost-gardens-of-apollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/lost-gardens-of-apollo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Gardens of Apollo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lost Gardens of Apollo is one of Second Life&#8217;s treasures.  It&#8217;s also one of its oldest attractions, dating all the way back to 2005.  There isn&#8217;t much in Second Life that&#8217;s been around this long.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a place of seductive beauty, a place for lovers and for lovers of beauty.  The sheer complexity of the build is stunning.  Covering an entire sim, it contains lush forests, hidden places to relax with a lover, an imposing temple-like structure on the harbor, and a &#8220;Bridge to Nowhere&#8221; floating high above.  Former members of the now-defunct virtual world There.com will feel at home in the floating islands that conjure a feeling of the magical place Saja in that extinct world.<\/p>\n<p>Second Life members can visit by using either of these slurls:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/Apollo\/76\/212\/24\">slurl.com\/secondlife\/Apollo\/76\/212\/24<\/a> (central landing point)<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/Apollo\/221\/101\/73>slurl.com\/secondlife\/Apollo\/76\/212\/24<\/a> (Bridge to Nowhere)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Lost Gardens of Apollo has a Facebook page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=20573244932\"?>\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=20573244932<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are four photos I took on my visit there yesterday.  I&#8217;ll have more in the future.<\/p>\n<table width=\"820\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011_01_24_GA_Bridge2Nowhere_005_400px.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Lost Gardens of Apollo - Bridge to Nowhere\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011_01_24_GA_Harbour_002_400px.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Lost Gardens of Apollo - Harbor\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011_01_24_GA_Bridge2Nowhere_007_400px.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Lost Gardens of Apollo - Bridge to Nowhere\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011_01_24_GA_towers_001_400px.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Lost Gardens of Apollo - wide view of towers\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lost Gardens of Apollo is one of Second Life&#8217;s treasures. It&#8217;s also one of its oldest attractions, dating all the way back to 2005. There isn&#8217;t much in Second Life that&#8217;s been around this long. It&#8217;s a place of seductive beauty, a place for lovers and for lovers of beauty. The sheer complexity of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/lost-gardens-of-apollo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lost Gardens of Apollo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[61,83],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-report","tag-beautiful-places","tag-gardens-of-apollo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}