{"id":774,"date":"2005-12-25T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/reconstruction-of-the-fables\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T18:42:22","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T23:42:22","slug":"reconstruction-of-the-fables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/reconstruction-of-the-fables","title":{"rendered":"Reconstruction of the fables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Massive<\/em> article on the future of New Orleans<\/a> in this morning’s Times-Picayune. It has some good insight into some of the local issues, and it also spotlights our ongoing concerns about free markets, local and federal government intervention, urban planning and more. I’m hoping to do a lot of reading on this stuff next year. No idea if it’ll lead to any good writing\/ theorizing, but hey.<\/p>\n

Read all about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Massive article on the future of New Orleans in this morning’s Times-Picayune. It has some good insight into some of the local issues, and it also spotlights our ongoing concerns about free markets, local and federal government intervention, urban planning and more. I’m hoping to do a lot of reading on this stuff next year. … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Reconstruction of the fables”<\/span><\/a><\/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":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-orleans","category-urban-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-cu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2455,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/new-orleans-beijing-same-difference","url_meta":{"origin":774,"position":0},"title":"New Orleans, Beijing: Same Difference","author":"Gil","date":"September 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Nicolai Ouroussoff: still here, still batshit-crazy. 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