{"id":1934,"date":"2010-12-21T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2010-12-21T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:37:36","slug":"chasing-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the American Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt about my sustained and so far unsuccessful job search <a href=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=643\" target=\"_blank\">on the American Urbex website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I am photographing an urbex location I see remnants of the American Dream. I see it in the ingenuity of the massive steel machines left behind in factories. I see it in the peeling paint on an abandoned home. I see it in the fading logo of an American made pickup trapped in a collapsed garage. When reconciling the past with the present I can\u2019t help but wonder when America will wake up from the dream. One thing I try to accomplish with my photography is to show comfortable Americans that, yes, this nightmare is the part of the American Dream that is conveniently omitted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you have any job leads, I&#8217;d like to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt about my sustained and so far unsuccessful job search on the American Urbex website. When I am photographing an urbex location I see remnants of the American Dream. I see it in the ingenuity of the massive steel machines left behind in factories. I see it in the peeling paint on an abandoned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=1934\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chasing the American Dream<\/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":[24],"tags":[42,43,155,260,405,536],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urbex","tag-america","tag-american","tag-dream","tag-job","tag-search","tag-urbex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934"}],"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=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}