{"id":1347,"date":"2009-03-16T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2009-03-16T15:36:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:36:57","slug":"detroit-americas-most-epic-urban-failure-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2009\/03\/detroit-americas-most-epic-urban-failure-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit, America&#8217;s most epic urban failure, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2009\/03\/reliques_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1346\" title=\"reliques_01\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2009\/03\/reliques_01-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Michigan Central Station, Detroit&#8217;s main train station, opened in 1913 has not been used since 1988. (<\/em><em>Photo by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month I blogged about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2009\/03\/detroit-americas-most-epic-urban-failure\/\/\">Detroit as America&#8217;s most epic urban failure<\/a>. My buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\">Detroit Rich<\/a> just tipped me off to a depressingly beautiful <em>Time<\/em> magazine photo essay of Detroit\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/photogallery\/0,29307,1882089_1850973,00.html\">Detroit&#8217;s Beautiful, Horrible Decline<\/a>\u2014which features the photography of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. Also check out the Marchand and Meffre <a href=\"http:\/\/reliques.online.fr\/detroit\/detroit00.html\">&#8220;Ruins of Detroit&#8221;<\/a> photo essay on their web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Central Station, Detroit&#8217;s main train station, opened in 1913 has not been used since 1988. (Photo by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre) Earlier this month I blogged about Detroit as America&#8217;s most epic urban failure. My buddy Detroit Rich just tipped me off to a depressingly beautiful Time magazine photo essay of Detroit\u2014Detroit&#8217;s Beautiful, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[2587,2586,33],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies","tag-cities","tag-detroit","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}