{"id":3532,"date":"2010-06-27T07:47:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T05:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2010-06-27T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T08:55:20","slug":"midsummer-in-gothenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/midsummer-in-gothenburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Midsummer in Gothenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I&#8217;d spend this years birthday and midsummer <em>low key<\/em>, which translates into &#8220;biking like crazy around town and drinking beer in front of Farscape&#8221;, and it was interesting. There&#8217;s a post-apocalyptic feeling to a city which everyone has evacuated in favour of the countryside. It&#8217;s what the city will look like after ebola becomes airborne, minus the rotting corpses. <em>Left behind<\/em> as it were.<\/p>\n<p>Just like biking at night gives you a new understanding of how a city can work, staying behind while everyone else leaves is an interesting experience. Everything seems more fragile, the sun and weeds and birds seem poised to invade. Next year I&#8217;m making sure to do something with friends, which is how I believe a day like this ought to be celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps we can plan the perfect heist while everyone else is grilling hotdogs and getting smashed.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12882728&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12882728&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I&#8217;d spend this years birthday and midsummer low key, which translates into &#8220;biking like crazy around town and drinking beer in front of Farscape&#8221;, and it was interesting. There&#8217;s a post-apocalyptic feeling to a city which everyone has evacuated in favour of the countryside. It&#8217;s what the city will look like after ebola &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/midsummer-in-gothenburg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midsummer in Gothenburg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[718,1300,137,1311,1310,1312,240],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-architecture","tag-biking","tag-fest","tag-ghost-town","tag-lonely","tag-midsommar","tag-midsummer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3536,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}