{"id":51,"date":"2016-07-24T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2016-07-23T02:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T02:03:40","slug":"ukiah-or-the-loss-of-public-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/07\/24\/ukiah-or-the-loss-of-public-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukiah; or, The loss of public spaces."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Next door to Willits, two towns that sound like diseases you don&#8217;t want.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where the community mostly preserved its downtown,\u00a0but lost its post office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" style=\"width: 1214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-53 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ukiah-ca-post-office-built-1936.jpg\" alt=\"Now for sale.\" width=\"1214\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ukiah-ca-post-office-built-1936.jpg 1214w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ukiah-ca-post-office-built-1936-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ukiah-ca-post-office-built-1936-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ukiah-ca-post-office-built-1936-1200x906.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1214px) 100vw, 1214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ukiah Post Office circa 1937.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what happened to its mural.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-54 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mural.jpeg\" alt=\"mural\" width=\"800\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mural.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mural-300x145.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mural-768x372.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Deal era mural that once adorned Ukiah&#8217;s post office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the\u00a0once-public\u00a0building sits vacant and for sale, mostly hidden behind\u00a0a cheap green fence. Replaced by &#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_83\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-83 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1092-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"Ukiah post office\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1092-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1092-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_1092-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The victory of economics, courtesy of USPS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Next door to Willits, two towns that sound like diseases you don&#8217;t want.&#8221; Where the community mostly preserved its downtown,\u00a0but lost its post office. &nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure what happened to its mural. But the\u00a0once-public\u00a0building sits vacant and for sale, mostly hidden behind\u00a0a cheap green fence. Replaced by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}