{"id":118,"date":"2009-12-06T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2009\/12\/06\/118\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T20:32:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T01:32:43","slug":"118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"LIFE IN THE &#8216;BURBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents grew up in urban factory neighborhoods, but they took advantage of the growing economy of the 1950s and 1960s to raise their own kids in the suburbs.  They figured that is was nicer, more backyard space, less crowding, a better place to raise kids.  <\/p>\n<p>I pretty much took the suburbs for granted as a kid. Never knew anything else. Interestingly enough, one day I used the cheap little camera that my parents gave me to take a picture that kind-of sums up the suburban experience.  It&#8217;s a car driving past a typical suburban house (typical, back when I was a kid, anyway).  This could be the scene just outside any major industrial city in the USA, circa 1962.  A family car and a house.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why I took this picture.  I never thought much of it, after it was developed and printed.  But now I do.  It does in fact capture something of the essence of where I grew up.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/burbs.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents grew up in urban factory neighborhoods, but they took advantage of the growing economy of the 1950s and 1960s to raise their own kids in the suburbs. They figured that is was nicer, more backyard space, less crowding, a better place to raise kids. I pretty much took the suburbs for granted as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}