{"id":2659,"date":"2012-03-25T19:05:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T00:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2012-03-25T19:08:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T00:08:40","slug":"sic-transit-funky-grunginess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2659","title":{"rendered":"Sic Transit Funky Grunginess"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/1stfac1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/1stfac2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/1stfac3.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>I pass this building most every day on my way to work.  But only recently did I notice it.  Pretty sad looking.  I wanted to get some shots just to capture the down mood of it.<\/p>\n<p>But it also reminds me that there were once many old buildings like this in northern NJ; I&#8217;m old enough to remember that.  The ones out in the suburbs were mostly knocked down and replaced by new housing or shopping malls in the 60&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s.  A lot of junky buildings survived in the urban neighborhoods into the 80&#8217;s, but gave way to re-development efforts by the mid-90s.  Somehow this one, in the Central Ward of Newark, escaped notice thus far.<\/p>\n<p>There are new townhouses and condos all around this site; it probably would already have been redeveloped but for the mortgage crisis of 2008.  Looks like it was some sort of mini-factory, maybe a fabric sweatshop of some kind (Newark used to have a lot of those).  Whatever, it will soon be gone.  Take one last look at the funky grunginess that was once common throughout the older neighborhoods in NJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pass this building most every day on my way to work. But only recently did I notice it. Pretty sad looking. I wanted to get some shots just to capture the down mood of it. But it also reminds me that there were once many old buildings like this in northern NJ; I&#8217;m old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}