{"id":2269,"date":"2017-09-06T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T22:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2017-09-06T18:08:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T22:08:35","slug":"2269-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/2269-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Baffler 36: Utopia Parkway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B36_Bayne_opener.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2271 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B36_Bayne_opener-277x400.jpg\" alt=\"B36_Bayne_opener\" width=\"277\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B36_Bayne_opener-277x400.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B36_Bayne_opener-768x1107.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B36_Bayne_opener-710x1024.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B36_Bayne_opener.jpg 1725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span class=\"first-selection\">IN THE WANING DAYS OF MARCH 2017,<\/span>\u00a0as Donald Trump busied himself taking photo-ops with truckers and dismantling Obama-era environmental protections, a young man named Austen Allred did what young people do these days when they have a thought. He took himself to Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"SALVOS-body\"><em>\u201cI\u2019m just waiting for someone to buy up an entire city in the middle of nowhere and do something interesting,\u201d he mused, tweeting a link to a $65,000 two-bedroom ranch house in Gary, Indiana. \u201cMaybe good place to start is to find the towns that were hit the hardest by automation\/factories closing. Turn it into low-cost tech utopia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What would a yin utopia look like?\u00a0I dunno but I went to New Harmony, Indiana &#8212; by way of Gary &#8212; for this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thebaffler.com\/salvos\/utopia-parkway-bayne\">piece in the new Baffler that tries to figure it out<\/a>. (Beautiful illustration accompanying the piece by Mills Brown.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN THE WANING DAYS OF MARCH 2017,\u00a0as Donald Trump busied himself taking photo-ops with truckers and dismantling Obama-era environmental protections, a young man named Austen Allred did what young people do these days when they have a thought. He took himself to Twitter. \u201cI\u2019m just waiting for someone to buy up an entire city in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/2269-2\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}