{"id":1002,"date":"2023-05-03T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2023-05-05T20:54:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:54:50","slug":"port-cochere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/03\/port-cochere\/","title":{"rendered":"Port cochere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A port cochere is defined as a covered entrance large enough for vehicles to pass through. They were a regular enough feature for public buildings of scale in the 19th century, allowing horse drawn traffic to enter a covered area for unloading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is one at Heuston Station, which is a rather squat affair:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!4v1683113668384!6m8!1m7!1sKwrt9MhSga3Dqdr_6SguRA!2m2!1d53.34605999978859!2d-6.293048184427977!3f313.4189641204795!4f2.6941261394403853!5f0.7820865974627469\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>compared to that at the train station in Palermo, Sicily. The Italians must have had higher carriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"823\" height=\"563\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Palermo-portcochere.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1003\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Palermo-portcochere.jpg 823w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Palermo-portcochere-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Palermo-portcochere-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><figcaption> Port cochere, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Copyright Ewan Duffy 2023 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A port cochere is defined as a covered entrance large enough for vehicles to pass through. They were a regular enough feature for public buildings of scale in the 19th century, allowing horse drawn traffic to enter a covered area for unloading. There is one at Heuston Station, which is a rather squat affair: compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}