{"id":8222,"date":"2019-08-02T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=8222"},"modified":"2019-08-02T16:05:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:05:58","slug":"new-yorkatlantic-city-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/new-yorkatlantic-city-65\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Atlantic City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AC_1100_px_033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AC_1100_px_033-700x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AC_1100_px_033-700x550.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AC_1100_px_033-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AC_1100_px_033.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AC_1100_px_033-624x491.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Atlantic City, 2017 &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>It does not take much imagination to see Atlantic City with its extreme juxtaposition of wealth and poverty as a metaphor for much of what is going on in the country as a whole. The casino hotels rise up above wooden row houses and churches like the old steel mills of the nation\u2019s heartland. Where the factories of the past once forged the raw goods that fed the might and power of a great nation, the massive casinos of Atlantic City represent the industrialization of tourism and the exploitation of the shrinking hopes and dreams of the American middle class.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6df14\" data-offset-key=\"fm4i6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fm4i6-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tiny.cc\/5xwnaz\"><span data-offset-key=\"fm4i6-0-0\">Purchase Atlantic City here<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AC_1100_px_033.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic City, 2017 &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose It does not take much imagination to see Atlantic City with its extreme juxtaposition of wealth and poverty as a metaphor for much of what is going on in the country as a whole. The casino hotels rise up above wooden row houses and churches like the old [&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-8222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222","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=8222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8224,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions\/8224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}