{"id":754,"date":"2005-12-08T07:43:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/call-of-the-sprawl\/"},"modified":"2005-12-08T07:43:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T12:43:15","slug":"call-of-the-sprawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/call-of-the-sprawl","title":{"rendered":"Call of the Sprawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Slate review<\/a> of Robert Bruegmann’s Sprawl: A Compact History<\/a> left me pretty interested in reading the book.<\/p>\n

Now Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds has weighed in with a column<\/a> on Bruegmann’s book, further piquing my interest. Like I don’t have enough<\/a> stuff to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Slate review of Robert Bruegmann’s Sprawl: A Compact History left me pretty interested in reading the book. Now Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds has weighed in with a column on Bruegmann’s book, further piquing my interest. Like I don’t have enough stuff to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suburbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-ca","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1550,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sprawl-for-some","url_meta":{"origin":754,"position":0},"title":"Sprawl for Some","author":"Gil","date":"June 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't recall why I never finished reading Robert Bruegmann's Sprawl: A Compact History. 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