{"id":9544,"date":"2011-05-27T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2011-05-27T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:11:18","slug":"swedish-subway-stations-or-hallucinatory-flashbacks-to-a-1975-shopping-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/swedish-subway-stations-or-hallucinatory-flashbacks-to-a-1975-shopping-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish subway stations or hallucinatory flashbacks to a 1975 shopping mall?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Coyne<\/a> linked to this set of photos of Swedish subway stations<\/a> saying “Good L\u00d8RD. Who was their designer, Willy Wonka?”<\/p>\n

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I shared the link with Jon, my former virtual landlord, who responded:<\/p>\n

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Tonight’s nightmares are going to leave a mark.<\/p>\n

I can only imagine what the flashbacks must be like for you, though. I suspect that these stations look remarkably like Sherway Gardens did to you and your friend after you guys went drinkin’ at the Steak’n’Burger.<\/p>\n

If there is a 1970’s-era Sherway Gardens in Hell, this is what it looks like.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I had a similar reaction to the photos . . . strikingly ugly where they’re not just flat-out disturbing. But what else could we expect from publicly funded artists selected by public transit officials?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Coyne linked to this set of photos of Swedish subway stations saying “Good L\u00d8RD. Who was their designer, Willy Wonka?” I shared the link with Jon, my former virtual landlord, who responded: Tonight’s nightmares are going to leave a mark. I can only imagine what the flashbacks must be like for you, though. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,28,237,73],"tags":[102,527,283],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-media","category-railways","category-randomness","tag-art","tag-publictransit","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2tW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9550,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions\/9550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}