{"id":574,"date":"2011-07-01T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2012-05-27T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T11:41:34","slug":"the-changing-colours-of-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"The changing colours of the city&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the characterising things about <a title=\"Ibadan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ibadan\">Ibadan <\/a>are the rust coloured roofs that cover most buildings. During a recent visit, I noticed newer buildings which had been built with colourful roofing sheets as opposed to the usual zinc plated roofing sheets which slowly rusted with age to give the characteristic colour. I wonder how long it would be before the beautiful sea of rust brown roofs will be replaced by a bright scattering of colour.<\/p>\n<p>I took this photograph from a hill overlooking the older part of the city.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-576\" title=\"A view of the older part of Ibadan\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/07\/CD1_9376.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the older part of Ibadan\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/07\/CD1_9376.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/07\/CD1_9376-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This one overlooks the city centre where lots of redevelopment is bringing the brighter coloured roofs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-577\" title=\"A view of Ibadan city centre\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/07\/CD1_9569.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Ibadan city centre\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/07\/CD1_9569.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/07\/CD1_9569-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I imagine that eventually, this sea of rusty brown roofs will be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-575\" title=\"The sea of rust coloured roofs in Ibadan\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/07\/CD1_9233.jpg\" alt=\"The sea of rust coloured roofs in Ibadan\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/07\/CD1_9233.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/photography\/passingclouds\/2011\/07\/CD1_9233-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the characterising things about Ibadan are the rust coloured roofs that cover most buildings. During a recent visit, I noticed newer buildings which had been built with colourful roofing sheets as opposed to the usual zinc plated roofing sheets which slowly rusted with age to give the characteristic colour. I wonder how long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[10,250,108],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscapes","category-travels","tag-ibadan","tag-nigeria","tag-rooftops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cloudydesert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}