{"id":12783,"date":"2010-02-21T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T22:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=12783"},"modified":"2010-02-18T21:42:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T05:42:40","slug":"sunday-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12783","title":{"rendered":"Sunday in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Fresno1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t been in <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12776 \">Fresno<\/a> for at least 10 years. The big commercial strip in town is Blackstone Avenue. This main drag was once plagued with zoning problems and mismanagement &#8211; it became known for creating some of the worst overgrown sprawl in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone was partial inspiration for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/the_greater_suburban_strip_poster-228875189544273179\" target=\"_blank\">Greater Suburban Strip illustration,<\/a> which is a composite of a few strips in California; including El Camino Real, Stevens Creek in San Jose and most of Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>Today, Blackstone is a mix of abandoned big boxes and oddly clever, repurposed businesses. New tenants are making new out of what is gone. Newest: Furniture City. I ate lunch in a combination Kabob House\/Used Car Lot. Snapped some shots on the way out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Fresno2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Fresno3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Fresno4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Fresno5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Fresno6.jpg\"><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Sunday in Fresno\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12783\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t been in Fresno for at least 10 years. The big commercial strip in town is Blackstone Avenue. This main drag was once plagued with zoning problems and mismanagement &#8211; it became known for creating some of the worst overgrown sprawl in the state. Blackstone was partial inspiration for my Greater Suburban Strip illustration, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50,54,75,53],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-12783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design","category-design-history","category-photography","category-thoughts","tag-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12783"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12811,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions\/12811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}