{"id":7635,"date":"2009-05-18T20:07:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T02:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=7635"},"modified":"2009-05-18T20:14:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T02:14:01","slug":"motels-and-malls-die-they-dont-fade-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/motels-and-malls-die-they-dont-fade-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Motels and Malls Die. They Don&#8217;t Fade Away."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Blows on keyboard*<\/p>\n<p>*COUGH!* *COUGH!* *COUGH!*<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;d all this dust get here? It&#8217;s almost as if something died around here.  We assure you, no one&#8217;s dead yet.<\/p>\n<p>In order to drill this point home: have a look at these seriously dead things. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=7637\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7637\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/deadmalls-motels.png\" alt=\"deadmalls-motels\" title=\"deadmalls-motels\" width=\"505\" height=\"185\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7637\" \/><\/a><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadmalls.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">No Shopping.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcardy.com\/motel1.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">No &#8220;If You Know What I Mean&#8221;.<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Now compare to the digital wonder-space you&#8217;re currently experiencing. Everything works pe<span style=\"text-decoration:blink;\">r<\/span>fectly.<\/p>\n<p>See? Nothing in common with de<span style=\"text-decoration:blink;\">a<\/span>d things at all.<\/p>\n<p>(Dead Mall photo thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pointshoot\/2608131923\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Flickr&#8217;s Eddie~S<\/a>)<br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadmalls.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">dead malls<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/deadmalls.blogspot.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcardy.com\/motel1.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">dead motels<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Blows on keyboard* *COUGH!* *COUGH!* *COUGH!* How&#8217;d all this dust get here? It&#8217;s almost as if something died around here. We assure you, no one&#8217;s dead yet. In order to drill this point home: have a look at these seriously dead things. No Shopping. No &#8220;If You Know What I Mean&#8221;. Now compare to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[31,1230,1231,1229,600,120],"class_list":["post-7635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa","tag-culture","tag-dead-malls","tag-motel-morgue","tag-not-dead-yet","tag-the-economy-sucks","tag-the-end-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}