{"id":2488,"date":"2017-12-28T17:44:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T01:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2017-12-28T17:44:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T01:44:33","slug":"review-victorian-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2488","title":{"rendered":"Review: Victorian Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until I sat down to write this review, I hadn&#8217;t noticed that Chris Epting is also the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2405\"><em>Teddy Roosevelt in California<\/em><\/a>, which I also enjoyed reading.<\/p>\n<p><em>Victorian LA<\/em> is a combination of tour book and historical retrospective mostly set in downtown.\u00a0 LA has a reputation of being a Mid-century Modern, Art Deco, Jet Age kind of city, but this work highlights Victorian buildings and their origins.\u00a0 Epting&#8217;s enthusiasm and knowledge shines through.\u00a0 His prose is clear and compelling.\u00a0 Overall a great book to plan a trip downtown (and other older neighborhoods) to scope cool architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until I sat down to write this review, I hadn&#8217;t noticed that Chris Epting is also the author of Teddy Roosevelt in California, which I also enjoyed reading. Victorian LA is a combination of tour book and historical retrospective mostly set in downtown.\u00a0 LA has a reputation of being a Mid-century Modern, Art Deco, Jet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}