{"id":227,"date":"2004-05-19T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T14:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=227"},"modified":"2005-12-31T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T21:16:22","slug":"delirious-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/delirious-seattle","title":{"rendered":"Delirious Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new public library building in Seattle just opened. Designed by Rem Koolhaas, it’s drawn rave reviews, including this one<\/a> from Herbert Muschamp at the NYTimes<\/em> (you have to be registered to read it, I tihnk). It includes the priceless line:<\/p>\n

“[W]hat kind of adult would deprive a child of the memory of a spectacular encounter with space?”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new public library building in Seattle just opened. Designed by Rem Koolhaas, it’s drawn rave reviews, including this one from Herbert Muschamp at the NYTimes (you have to be registered to read it, I tihnk). It includes the priceless line: “[W]hat kind of adult would deprive a child of the memory of a spectacular … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Delirious Seattle”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1506,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/emerald-architecture","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":0},"title":"Emerald Architecture","author":"Gil","date":"May 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Haven't posted one of these in a while: a slideshow by Witold Rybczynski about the architecture in Seattle! 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