{"id":2797,"date":"2021-04-15T23:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2021-04-15T23:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:30:44","slug":"a-big-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2797","title":{"rendered":"A Big Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found the Solar Living Center in Hopland, Ca, way back when I first started traveling.  I described it as &#8220;The Whole Earth Catalog brought to life&#8221;. A large grounds with a store, solar panels, water treatment exhibits, and whatever it took to go back to the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several years ago the store closed down. A licensed pot shop went in fairly soon after legalization. It was notable because one could partake on the grounds, a rarity in legal states. I was there last year just before the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It couldn&#8217;t survive the pandemic and is now closed up. It was a living museum of the alternative culture that arose around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the Solar Living Center in Hopland, Ca, way back when I first started traveling. I described it as &#8220;The Whole Earth Catalog brought to life&#8221;. A large grounds with a store, solar panels, water treatment exhibits, and whatever it took to go back to the land. Several years ago the store closed down. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}