{"id":1886,"date":"2009-07-29T05:32:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T12:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2012-01-14T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T21:25:09","slug":"fargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/fargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"A Taste of Seattle by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/3767182225\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3553\/3767182225_846014eef6_m.jpg\" alt=\"A Taste of Seattle\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Fargo is flat, really, really flat. It&#8217;s a grid city with wide avenues that are seemingly all under construction. There are neat little houses with neat little yards, but more than that, there are cookie cutter developments, row after row after row of beige homes that all look exactly the same, with drying lawns out front, with trucks in the driveways, with young moms. Fargo is dusty and the air is cool and it reminds me of frontier towns in Alaska more than anything, were frontier towns in Alaska surrounded by the suburbs of my nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>In a coffee house called &#8220;A Taste of Seattle&#8221; I drank an Americano and checked my email. &#8220;It&#8217;s supposed to have a Seattle feel,&#8221; said the laughing barrista behind the counter. &#8220;Our barristas are NEVER this cheeful,&#8221; I told her, and promptly sent her off to get 2 or 20 more tattoos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fargo is flat, really, really flat. It&#8217;s a grid city with wide avenues that are seemingly all under construction. There are neat little houses with neat little yards, but more than that, there are cookie cutter developments, row after row after row of beige homes that all look exactly the same, with drying lawns out &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Fargo\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/fargo\/#more-1886\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fargo\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/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":[48,552,553,239,550],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere","tag-coffee","tag-fargo","tag-north-dakota","tag-road-trip","tag-tbexrt","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5892,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/5892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}