{"id":2402,"date":"2011-07-28T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2011-07-28T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:27:23","slug":"whispering-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"Whispering pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, I realized that an obscure\u00a0piece of local architecture had one of the oddest characteristics to be found in this area. Discussed on the main website on a page about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/lakeside\/curiosities\/index.html\">Curiosities<\/a>, it is our local whispering gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The structure is actually a\u00a0long\u2013abandoned,\u00a0century\u2013old, swimming pool that is an easily overlooked feature of Kokanee Creek Provincial Park. It is accessed by going about 600 metres up the Kokanee Glacier Road and taking a short path into the woods on the north side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>What I realized was that the empty pool\u2019s elliptical shape enabled it to function as a whispering gallery: a person located at one of the two foci could hold a quiet conversation with someone at the other.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I showed it to visitors. One person knelt at each focus: about 80 centemetres from each end of the twelve\u2013metre axis. The two people were easily able to whisper back and forth despite the fact that, standing halfway between, I could hear neither. Really neat.<\/p>\n<p>Trying out Kokanee Creek Park\u2019s strangest feature: a whispering pool.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2403\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/whisperinggallery110727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, I realized that an obscure\u00a0piece of local architecture had one of the oddest characteristics to be found in this area. Discussed on the main website on a page about\u00a0Curiosities, it is our local whispering gallery. The structure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2402\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}