{"id":846,"date":"2009-05-26T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=846"},"modified":"2009-05-26T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:02:18","slug":"grey-materialistic-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Grey Materialistic Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleat\/?p=2364\">horror that is suburbia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>we drove deep into the exurbs for a little dinner gathering at her piano teacher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house, where a brilliant young kid played flamenco guitar on the porch. Home-schooled. Arranges his own stuff; wants to go into economics. As I twittered at the time: ah the culturally destitute burbs, with the sound of an expertly strummed guitar floating over the golf course behind the house. Good thing the street wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a cul-de-sac, or people might have come out with pitchforks. Stop that art there! This is the suburbs! Only grey, materialistic lives are permitted here!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks on the horror that is suburbia: we drove deep into the exurbs for a little dinner gathering at her piano teacher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house, where a brilliant young kid played flamenco guitar on the porch. Home-schooled. Arranges his own stuff; wants to go into economics. As I twittered at the time: ah the culturally destitute burbs, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=846\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grey Materialistic Lives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[62,63],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-lileks","tag-suburbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}