{"id":40,"date":"2008-11-13T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/13\/impressions-of-detroit"},"modified":"2008-11-13T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T04:04:00","slug":"impressions-of-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/impressions-of-detroit.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressions of Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/facing-peak-oil-in-motown.html\">John Michael Greer shares his impressions of Detroit:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I spent the flight staring out the window at half a continent\u2019s worth of scenery while trying to fit my head around Bateson\u2019s take on systems theory or the tangled syntax of some scrap of atrocious medieval Latin, and spent the ride from the airport to the hotel in suburban Auburn Hills taking in glimpses of Detroit: long-abandoned factory buildings in ruins, gritty slums with colorfully named churches and every third house boarded up, posh suburban neighborhoods with ostentatious yards, huge office buildings breaking the skyline, and then the huge mass of Chrysler\u2019s headquarters complex looming up beside the freeway like a pharaoh\u2019s tomb. I half-expected to see an inscription out of Shelley\u2019s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Ozymandias<\/span> there:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">My name is Iacocca, CEO of CEOs;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Look on my works, ye bankers, and despair!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Michael Greer shares his impressions of Detroit: I spent the flight staring out the window at half a continent\u2019s worth of scenery while trying to fit my head around Bateson\u2019s take on systems theory or the tangled syntax of some scrap of atrocious medieval Latin, and spent the ride from the airport to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,25,27,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-michigan","category-motown","category-the-stupid-economy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}