{"id":1557,"date":"2014-10-17T08:57:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2014-10-17T08:58:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:58:10","slug":"the-rust-belt-is-a-different-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"The Rust Belt is a Different World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a complete surprise to me that there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2014\/oct\/17\/haunting-homes-ohio-abandoned-country-houses-in-pictures\">many abandoned homes<\/a> in such places.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s hard for me to understand is how all the furniture inside them was also just abandoned in many cases. The houses might have been doomed by a location that is no longer considered desirable, but all that furniture still has some value and it&#8217;s really not that difficult to move furniture. One would think that would be done.<\/p>\n<p>The family mementos are also a surprise. Those people had relatives, and things like framed photographs are easy to take.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time such things have struck me as odd, and it&#8217;s not just abandoned residences, either. I&#8217;ve also been struck by how many abandoned furnishings are evident in photos of derelict commercial and institutional structures in Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a complete surprise to me that there&#8217;s many abandoned homes in such places. What&#8217;s hard for me to understand is how all the furniture inside them was also just abandoned in many cases. The houses might have been doomed by a location that is no longer considered desirable, but all that furniture still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}