{"id":1684,"date":"2010-05-15T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T18:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2010-05-15T13:19:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T18:19:45","slug":"american-urbex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"American Urbex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Solvay Coke &amp; Gas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kenfagerdotcom\/3436036831\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3337\/3436036831_a4cacc84ab.jpg\" alt=\"Solvay Coke &amp; Gas\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years I have developed a fascination with photographing abandoned buildings. I have also had a strong desire to unravel the secrets pasts of these locations and have been successful to varying degrees.<\/p>\n<p>I met with my professor Dr. Zarinnia at Culver&#8217;s one day for lunch a few weeks ago to discuss what I could do for my LibMedia Virtual Libraries final project. We spoke for an hour and a half about a wide variety of topics; our family backgrounds, travels abroad, personal interests, technology, and politics. Over the course of our conversation my fascination with photographing decay became apparent. I explained how my it all began and has progressed to something beyond just documentation. I want to talk to people, get their stories, collect factual information and connect the past with the present. The big question she posed to me was &#8220;How do you go about doing that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project I came up with is <a title=\"American Urbex\" href=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Urbex<\/a>. It is a blog that chronicles my photography, mashes it up with geolocation maps, and includes access to resources that I use to research locations. It is by no means an extensive catalogue and there is much work to do. I plan on adding to it whenever the urge arises. At best it is a proof of concept, but one that I can certainly build upon.<\/p>\n<p>So please check out <a title=\"American Urbex\" href=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Urbex<\/a> and bookmark it. Good things are on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years I have developed a fascination with photographing abandoned buildings. I have also had a strong desire to unravel the secrets pasts of these locations and have been successful to varying degrees. I met with my professor Dr. Zarinnia at Culver&#8217;s one day for lunch a few weeks ago to discuss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=1684\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Urbex<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,24],"tags":[43,81,296,536,487],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-education","category-urbex","tag-american","tag-blog","tag-mashup","tag-urbex","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}