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The French are spiffying up the Eiffel Tower for its 120th anniversary<\/a> — adding an expanded (but temporary) observation deck on the top that gives it a sort of Seattle flare.<\/p>\n

I was surprised to find I actually liked it. traditionalist that I am. Especially knowing that it’s just for the anniversary year — or so they say now. Don’t forget that the tower itself<\/a> was a temporary structure for a World’s Fair …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The French are spiffying up the Eiffel Tower for its 120th anniversary — adding an expanded (but temporary) observation deck on the top that gives it a sort of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129573,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/departing-the-simcity.html","url_meta":{"origin":12565,"position":0},"title":"Departing the (Sim)City","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 30-Jan-16 1:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been SimCity BuildIt on my tablet for the past month or two, but I'm pretty much done with it. - There are multiple types of currency and collectables used to pay for various things that gradually make getting anything done more and more complex.- The city design constraints are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7564,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/down_in_flames.html","url_meta":{"origin":12565,"position":1},"title":"Down in flames","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Feb-05 8:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, I'm truly outraged now: For over half a century, kits have been sold that enable military history buffs to assemble scale models of military ships, aircraft and vehicles. 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