{"id":3366,"date":"2009-02-05T07:22:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2009-02-05T07:22:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T12:22:27","slug":"mauled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mauled","title":{"rendered":"Mauled"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are several awesome things about this NYTimes article about shopping malls<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  1. it’s written in the second person;<\/li>\n
  2. it turned me on to deadmalls.com<\/a>;<\/li>\n
  3. it is a near-parody of the Times<\/em>‘ legendary condescension toward “flyover” country, but not near enough;<\/li>\n
  4. it is completely blind to the ways in which Manhattan is becoming an imitation of northern New Jersey mall culture.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are several awesome things about this NYTimes article about shopping malls: it’s written in the second person; it turned me on to deadmalls.com; it is a near-parody of the Times‘ legendary condescension toward “flyover” country, but not near enough; it is completely blind to the ways in which Manhattan is becoming an imitation of … <\/p>\n

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