{"id":7725,"date":"2018-05-16T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2018-05-16T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:15:41","slug":"new-yorkatlantic-city-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/new-yorkatlantic-city-48\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Atlantic City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/2018\/showboatwall_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/showboatwall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/showboatwall.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/showboatwall-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/showboatwall.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Showboat Hotel &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>Standing on the boardwalk looking inland &#8212; if you leave things vacant long enough in Atlantic City it will revert back to the sandbar that it naturally is. I assume that this block long party wall was meant to abut another casino hotel. But this being Atlantic City, windowless casino walls become virtually permanent features of the urban landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Showboat and its casino closed in 2014 along with several other AC casinos, but has since reopened as a giant plain vanilla hotel. Obviously, it can&#8217;t make money. These things have to be write-offs awaiting possible rebirth as rebranded casinos. What else is there? Perhaps, money laundering machines, which is almost certainly true of the former Trump casinos.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the sand drifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showboat Hotel &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose Standing on the boardwalk looking inland &#8212; if you leave things vacant long enough in Atlantic City it will revert back to the sandbar that it naturally is. I assume that this block long party wall was meant to abut another casino hotel. But this being Atlantic City, windowless [&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-7725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","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=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7727,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}