{"id":8560,"date":"2013-09-28T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8560"},"modified":"2013-09-28T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T17:39:49","slug":"southern-california-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8560","title":{"rendered":"Southern California Stew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8131\" alt=\"Observation Stew\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/stew.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>This has been a busy week &#8212; lots of stuff to do at work combined with a migraine flare (thank you, Santa Ana winds) and a dearth of compelling news items led to no posts during the week. I have a few items backed up, some of which actually theme. The themed ones all have to do with Southern California:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Plant a Radish, Get a Radish<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s a really neat article about something the camps did over the summer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/los_angeles\/article\/camp_garden_helps_kids_generosity_grow\">they planted camp gardens<\/a>. What&#8217;s more interesting here is what they did with the gardens: they not only grew their own food, but they grew food for charity. It&#8217;s nice to see a program like this at camp; it is an extension of the old &#8220;Nature&#8221; \u2192 &#8220;Ecology&#8221; \u2192 &#8220;Avodah&#8221; programs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Bird Flies Away.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/general-news\/20130925\/iconic-proud-bird-restaurant-at-lax-announces-plans-to-close#.UkOpVWyYiOM.email\">The iconic Proud Bird restaurant just S of LAX is closing<\/a>. Proud Bird is one of those old airport-near restaurants that celebrated airplanes and airplane history (think 94th Aero Squadron). There have been many business meetings, retirement parties, and &#8220;grey-beard&#8221; get-togethers at the Proud Bird. It will be sad to see it go.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aluminum City.<\/strong> Here&#8217;s an interesting article that links to <a href=\"http:\/\/la.curbed.com\/archives\/2013\/09\/the_secret_cowboycleopatratin_foil_origins_of_century_city.php\">a longer story on the history of Century City<\/a>. It&#8217;s a story of a silver screen cowboy, a studio desiring to monetize its historic back lot, a lot of aluminum, and the development of a modern office park and shopping center.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Dying Sea.<\/strong> From the modern Century City, eyes turn to the decaying Salton Sea. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/la.curbed.com\/archives\/2013\/09\/9_apocalyptic_scenes_from_the_decaying_salton_sea.php\">a look at the dying Salton Sea, and the human and infrastructural debris is it leaving behind<\/a> as its footprint shrinks. A lake made by man, leaving ghostly echoes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a busy week &#8212; lots of stuff to do at work combined with a migraine flare (thank you, Santa Ana winds) and a dearth of compelling news items led to no posts during the week. I have a few items backed up, some of which actually theme. The themed ones all have <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8560\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,117,56],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-8560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camp","category-history","category-news-chum","tag-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8562,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions\/8562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}