{"id":16512,"date":"2015-04-28T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16512"},"modified":"2015-04-28T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T20:09:25","slug":"historical-thingness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16512","title":{"rendered":"Historical Thingness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a pretty great photo of my blog&#8217;s namesake, the\u00a0infamous desert highway mystery attraction\/tourist trap known as &#8220;The Thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-28 at 7.39.41 AM by Paul Woodford, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/17299787532\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"click to view full sized image on Flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8775\/17299787532_72ca786166_z.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-28 at 7.39.41 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original &#8220;The Thing,&#8221; Route 66, Barstow, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This photo dates from the 1950s, when The Thing was in its original Mojave Desert home on Route 66 near Barstow, California. It moved to its present location on Interstate 10 near Willcox, Arizona, in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally &#8230; how could I resist? &#8230; I added this photo to my rotating collection of header images (go to the top of the blog and click &#8220;refresh&#8221; to see them all).<\/p>\n<p>Who loves ya, baby? Paul&#8217;s Thing, that&#8217;s who!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a pretty great photo of my blog&#8217;s namesake, the\u00a0infamous desert highway mystery attraction\/tourist trap known as &#8220;The Thing.&#8221; This photo dates from the 1950s, when The Thing was in its original Mojave Desert home on Route 66 near Barstow, California. It moved to its present location on Interstate 10 near Willcox, Arizona, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,64,555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","category-history","category-local-color"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16512"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16518,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512\/revisions\/16518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}