{"id":2436,"date":"2010-01-03T09:24:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2016-12-18T17:29:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:29:01","slug":"downtown-renovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/downtown-renovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Renovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Coins by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/4240496547\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2766\/4240496547_0e6f58ded4.jpg\" alt=\"Coins\" width=\"354\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m fond of entropy, the sight of buildings decaying, old facades, rusting metal, or neon signs. When I first moved to Seattle, I used to ride my bike through the intersection where this renovation is taking place, past drug dealers and the needle exchange and a now and then a tent revival and a place where you could buy a vibrant purple suit with wide lapels and hey, why not go with the shiny two tone shoes, while you&#8217;re at it. The wig store is still there, but the place that used to be a strip joint is now a Made in Seattle store and the boarded up furniture place is a Columbia Sportswear store. When you watch your city change, it is easy to forget what used to be, that your favorite coffee house is now a leasing office for expensive apartments, that the pawn shop where that first, best, ukulele originated is a high end stationary store. It&#8217;s good to look up and see what used to be, even while it&#8217;s going away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Seattle ain&#8217;t what it was. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[674,675,64,776],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","tag-downtown","tag-entropy","tag-photography","tag-seattle","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\/2436","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=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11796,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/11796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}