{"id":251,"date":"2008-01-23T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:45","slug":"more-scenic-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/more-scenic-california.html","title":{"rendered":"More Scenic California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Harbor-Freeway_2.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 650px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/8\/8a\/Harbor-Freeway_2.jpg\/800px-Harbor-Freeway_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Well, here we&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Harbor-Freeway_2.jpg\">an entirely different view<\/a> of the Harbor Freeway (compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/scenic-california.html\">a few weeks ago<\/a>).  California&#8217;s pride in their municipal freeways was immense:  in theory, they provided an escape from the crowded streets of other metropolitan areas, and allowed for relaxing suburban living while working in the city.  Today, we see this as Sprawl, a bad thing, but in the sixties it was The Way Of The Future.  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">see also: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ithacahours.com\/losangeles.html\">history of future la<\/a> * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetizen.com\/node\/23535\">1970s concept la proposal<\/a> * <a href=\"http:\/\/thelope.com\/2006\/04\/future-was-so-cool-in-1961.html\">interior of lax<\/a> * more 60s freeway (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesphoenix.com\/autopia-downtown-los-angeles-1957\/\">1<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesphoenix.com\/freeway-poser-los-angeles-1959\/\">2<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-2415750249988327101?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here we&#8217;ve got an entirely different view of the Harbor Freeway (compared to a few weeks ago). California&#8217;s pride in their municipal freeways was immense: in theory, they provided an escape from the crowded streets of other metropolitan areas, and allowed for relaxing suburban living while working in the city. Today, we see this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,154,153,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}