{"id":1304,"date":"2004-08-12T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T07:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2009-08-08T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T08:16:18","slug":"first-night-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/first-night-in-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"First Night in SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1305\" title=\"081204sfloft\" src=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/081204sfloft.jpg\" alt=\"081204sfloft\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/081204sfloft.jpg 400w, https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/081204sfloft-255x191.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1306\" title=\"081204loftview\" src=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/081204loftview.jpg\" alt=\"081204loftview\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/081204loftview.jpg 400w, https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/081204loftview-255x191.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve finally moved from New York to San Francisco.\u00a0 It\u2019s the first night in the loft and we\u2019re soaking in the magic from our eleventh floor view.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost the same view that we used to have when we visited and stayed at the Argent on third street.\u00a0 From here, we can see more than 180 degrees around SF: the bay stretching to the east, the interstate cutting across third and fourth street, Potrero hill, more hills of houses and green in the distance, Mt. Sutro, the top of city hall, Moscone, Metreon, and the rise of the downtown buildings to the right.\u00a0 Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>The furniture\u2019s not here for another day and I\u2019m basking in the minimalist beauty of a bare two-story concrete loft. The first time I saw a loft in high school, flipping through an issue of Architectural Digest, it made an impression on me that has never left.\u00a0 Even though I\u2019m a small person, I function much better in vast spaces.\u00a0 Ceiling height, combined with modern finishes and sculptural detail and I\u2019m inspired.\u00a0 Here\u2019s to working towards a dream that\u2019s come true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve finally moved from New York to San Francisco.\u00a0 It\u2019s the first night in the loft and we\u2019re soaking in the magic from our eleventh floor view.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost the same view that we used to have when we visited and stayed at the Argent on third street.\u00a0 From here, we can see more than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[401,258,436,184,295],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living","tag-77dow","tag-lifestyle","tag-loft","tag-sf","tag-urban"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}