{"id":13198,"date":"2011-08-25T09:56:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T13:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=13198"},"modified":"2011-08-25T09:56:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T13:56:43","slug":"main-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=13198","title":{"rendered":"Down On Main Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2011\/08\/hey-bit-of-sense.html\">Atrios<\/a> complains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I loathe all &quot;main street&quot; references as nobody knows what the hell main street is anymore, unless perhaps there's a &quot;main street&quot; section of your local mall...<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, my little town has a great little main street. Sure, it's only two blocks long, but it's full of locally-owned shops and restaurants and is typically so full of locals that parking can sometimes be tough.<\/p>\n<p>There is no mall in my town, but we have plenty of big box and chain stores and restaurants a mile or so away from Main Street, and the town is bookended by a Target on one end and a Walmart on the other. But, despite all that, Main Street is doing fine. And everybody knows where and what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, not all towns are my town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atrios complains: I loathe all &quot;main street&quot; references as nobody knows what the hell main street is anymore, unless perhaps there's a &quot;main street&quot; section of your local mall... Actually, my little town has a great little main street. Sure, it's only two blocks long, but it's full of locally-owned shops and restaurants and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}