{"id":6991,"date":"2017-02-17T23:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T04:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=6991"},"modified":"2017-02-17T23:05:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T04:05:54","slug":"new-yorkatlantic-city-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/new-yorkatlantic-city-19\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Atlantic City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/2017\/shrinkwrapped_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shrinkwrapped-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shrinkwrapped.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/shrinkwrapped-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>Atlantic City &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>Back in Atlantic City on a bright, somewhat cold, February day. Earlier in the week, I read that the Trump name was being removed from the Trump Taj Mahal.I decided that I better go back and get some more photographs of the Taj before it was completely de-Trumpified. All traces of the name had already vanished from the Boardwalk. On the back side of the tower, however, workmen high on a crane were busy detaching the red letters from the facade. It was not something I could do much with using the view camera, so I moved on.<\/p>\n<p>I walked out on the beach for an overview, stopping behind a restaurant, closed for the season, with some of its furniture shrink-wrapped in plastic, the bulbous shapes oddly echoing the onion domes of the Trump Taj Mahal. The casino, as i&#8217;d noted before, looks less like the Taj Mahal of India than it does a Russian Orthodox church. Despite all the Trump\/Russian connections, that was probably not the original intention. But it&#8217;s one more thing that makes you go hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic City &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose Back in Atlantic City on a bright, somewhat cold, February day. Earlier in the week, I read that the Trump name was being removed from the Trump Taj Mahal.I decided that I better go back and get some more photographs of the Taj before it was completely de-Trumpified. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6994,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions\/6994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}