{"id":811,"date":"2004-08-18T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slumberland.org\/?p=811"},"modified":"2004-08-18T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2004-08-19T00:31:10","slug":"the-retro-motels-of-highway-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/2004\/08\/18\/the-retro-motels-of-highway-99\/","title":{"rendered":"The Retro Motels of Highway 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-tiki-hut.com\/retromotels\/\">The Retro Motels of Highway 99<\/a> is a photo essay of some of the great old highway signs on Aurora Avenue North\/Highway 99, which used to be the major route between Canada and Mexico, and is now the home of skanky run-down motels frequented by hookers and drug addicts.  Some of these signs would have looked much better photographed at night when the neon glow would hide the rust and neglect; others haven&#8217;t had working neon in years, so it doesn&#8217;t really matter. Anyway, it&#8217;s a fascinating bit of rapidly disappearing Americana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Retro Motels of Highway 99 is a photo essay of some of the great old highway signs on Aurora Avenue North\/Highway 99, which used to be the major route between Canada and Mexico, and is now the home of skanky run-down motels frequented by hookers and drug addicts. Some of these signs would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3l1DW-d5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}