{"id":9875,"date":"2013-02-02T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=9875"},"modified":"2013-02-02T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:02:01","slug":"the-science-fictional-ruin-of-the-bulgarian-communist-party-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=9875","title":{"rendered":"The Science Fictional Ruin of the Bulgarian Communist Party Headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missed this when it came out last year, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2117506\/Monument-troubled-past-Inside-crumbling-communist-HQ-Bulgaria-afford-maintain-demolish.html\">this <i>Daily Mail<\/i> piece on the ruin of the Bulgarian Communist Party headquarters<\/a> has some awesome pictures of very science fictional ruins.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2012\/03\/20\/article-0-123AFC8E000005DC-436_964x641.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of those equally science fictional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=4916\">Yugoslavian Communist monuments<\/a>. Monuments to an illusionary future by regimes that ignored their overwhelming, oppressive failure in the present. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missed this when it came out last year, but this Daily Mail piece on the ruin of the Bulgarian Communist Party headquarters has some awesome pictures of very science fictional ruins. Reminds me of those equally science fictional Yugoslavian Communist monuments. Monuments to an illusionary future by regimes that ignored their overwhelming, oppressive failure in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1042,1555,375,1554],"class_list":["post-9875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-architecture","tag-bulgaria","tag-communism","tag-ruins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9875"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9887,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875\/revisions\/9887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}