{"id":3260,"date":"2024-06-26T19:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T03:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2024-06-26T19:54:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T03:54:27","slug":"review-the-los-angeles-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3260","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Los Angeles Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are a lot of ethnic communities in Los Angeles.  Much of what makes the city&#8217;s history fascinating is how they tussle in creating the place.  In <em>Plaza<\/em> William David Estrada takes a slice through that history framed by the plaza at the center of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That plaza has undergone changes from a traditional European central square to something flavored by Mexico&#8217;s emerging identity to a multi-ethnic gathering place.  Not to mention how it was manipulated by the people selling a fictional Los Angeles into a tourist attraction.  Other parts were just erased.  I had no idea how big a part the LA plaza played in the Sun Yat -sen&#8217;s revolution in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estrada takes the reader through these twists and turns with scholarship and heart.  It&#8217;s still a largely academic work, but with plenty of treasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of ethnic communities in Los Angeles. Much of what makes the city&#8217;s history fascinating is how they tussle in creating the place. In Plaza William David Estrada takes a slice through that history framed by the plaza at the center of the city. That plaza has undergone changes from a traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}