{"id":138387,"date":"2022-04-21T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T08:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/dangerous-nostalgia-why-romanticizing-the-1950s-and-1960s-wont-get-us-anywhere"},"modified":"2022-04-21T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T08:04:17","slug":"dangerous-nostalgia-why-romanticizing-the-1950s-and-1960s-wont-get-us-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/dangerous-nostalgia-why-romanticizing-the-1950s-and-1960s-wont-get-us-anywhere","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Nostalgia: Why Romanticizing the 1950s and 1960s Won\u2019t Get Us Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dangerous-nostalgia-why-romanticizing-the-1950s-and-1960s-wont-get-us-anywhere.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Large swaths of our cities were built to reflect a post-World War Two boom that was an economic anomaly. But that party is long over\u2026and, in many ways, wasn\u2019t that great to begin with. So why do we keep romanticizing the past rather than thinking about the cities we need now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large swaths of our cities were built to reflect a post-World War Two boom that was an economic anomaly. But that party is long over\u2026and, in many ways, wasn\u2019t that great to begin with. So why do we keep romanticizing the past rather than thinking about the cities we need now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}