{"id":130327794,"date":"2009-02-17T10:09:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T10:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=130327794"},"modified":"2009-02-17T10:09:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T10:09:54","slug":"i-dream-of-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=130327794","title":{"rendered":"I Dream of Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Brooks<br \/>\nThose dreams have been aroused over the past few months. The economic crisis has devastated the fast-growing developments on the far suburban fringe. Americans now taste the bitter fruit of their overconsumption.<br \/>\nThe time has finally come, some writers are predicting, when Americans will finally repent. They\u2019ll move back to the urban core. They will ride more bicycles, have smaller homes and tinier fridges and rediscover the joys of dense community \u2014 and maybe even superior beer.<br \/>\nAmerica will, in short, finally begin to look a little more like Amsterdam.<br \/>\nWell, Amsterdam is a wonderful city, but Americans never seem to want to live there. And even now, in this moment of chastening pain, they don\u2019t seem to want the Dutch option.<br \/>\nThe Pew Research Center just finished a study about where Americans would like to live and what sort of lifestyle they would like to have. The first thing they found is that even in dark times, Americans are still looking over the next horizon. Nearly half of those surveyed said they would rather live in a different type of community from the one they are living in at present.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/17\/opinion\/17brooks.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/17\/opinion\/17brooks.html<\/a>oldId.20090217100954858<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Brooks Those dreams have been aroused over the past few months. The economic crisis has devastated the fast-growing developments on the far suburban fringe. Americans now taste the bitter fruit of their overconsumption. The time has finally come, some writers are predicting, when Americans will finally repent. They\u2019ll move back to the urban &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=130327794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Dream of Denver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130327794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130327794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130327794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130327794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130327794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130327794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130327794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}