{"id":267,"date":"2008-01-07T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:53","slug":"scenic-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/scenic-california.html","title":{"rendered":"Scenic California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Harbor-Freeway.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/8\/8c\/Harbor-Freeway.jpg\/800px-Harbor-Freeway.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I know I&#8217;ve been picking on North Dakota for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/armour-stockyards-west-fargo-nd-1938.html\">its scenic vastness<\/a>, but is this so much better?  Back in the 1960s, California was so proud of its freeway system that &#8212; like Arizona with its Grand Canyon, South Dakota with its Mount Rushmore, New York with its Niagara Falls &#8212; they released a set of collectible slides documenting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Los_Angeles_Freeway_System\">Los Angeles Freeway System<\/a>.  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">MARVEL<\/span> at the expanses of concrete and pavement!  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">SMELL<\/span> the pollution wafting up from the vehicles!  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">CRINGE IN TERROR<\/span> at how close those two cars are in the third lane from the left!  Oh, I kid &#8212; unlike where I live, you can actually see some hills off towards the horizon.  Between here and there, however, is a concrete jungle.  I still prefer here.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">see also:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Pre-Interstate_Map_Of_US_Routes_and_Highways%2C_1955.jpg\">pre-freeway map<\/a> * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cahighways.org\/\">California highways<\/a> * <a href=\"http:\/\/members.cox.net\/mkpl2\/hist\/hist.html\">more photos<\/a> * <a href=\"http:\/\/theam.vox.com\/library\/post\/a-southern-california-freeway.html\">just newer cars today<\/a> * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/09\/25\/person-ditches-house.html\">house stranded on CA highway<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-3784221828672907473?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve been picking on North Dakota for its scenic vastness, but is this so much better? Back in the 1960s, California was so proud of its freeway system that &#8212; like Arizona with its Grand Canyon, South Dakota with its Mount Rushmore, New York with its Niagara Falls &#8212; they released a set [&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":[15,154,153,151,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}