{"id":2732,"date":"2009-09-08T22:10:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T05:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2009-09-07T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T22:19:42","slug":"ruin-porn-the-cliche-of-abandoned-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/2732","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ruin porn&#8217; &#8211; The clich\u00e9 of abandoned Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/int\/v16n8\/htdocs\/something-something-something-detroit-994.php?page=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/BLOGimages\/DetroitVice1.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Photo op\/visual metaphor\/music video locale\/nude model hangout: Detroit&#8217;s Michigan Central Station<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The state of journalism in the US is a mess; what sells is often put ahead of the real news. Money (desire for\/lack of) drives the system. If I want good international reporting, I tend to stick with the BBC. Domestically, it&#8217;s more fluff than not.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Vice magazine&#8217;s take on journalists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/int\/v16n8\/htdocs\/something-something-something-detroit-994.php?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">descending on abandoned buildings in Detroit because they&#8217;re really good photo ops<\/a>. Really.<\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/okayokay\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter.com\/okayokay<\/a><\/em><\/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=\"'Ruin porn' - The clich\u00e9 of abandoned Detroit\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/2732\"  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>Photo op\/visual metaphor\/music video locale\/nude model hangout: Detroit&#8217;s Michigan Central Station The state of journalism in the US is a mess; what sells is often put ahead of the real news. Money (desire for\/lack of) drives the system. If I want good international reporting, I tend to stick with the BBC. Domestically, it&#8217;s more fluff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","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=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}