{"id":4566,"date":"2011-06-25T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2011-06-24T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:11:09","slug":"not-burkas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=4566","title":{"rendered":"Not Burkas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"IMG_2225\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/5866720970\/img_2225.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3040\/5866720970_f21ed69013.jpg?resize=500%2C291\" alt=\"IMG_2225\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These are not women in party burkas.\u00a0 They are displays of fabric in the garment district of Los Angeles.\u00a0 Nurit and I went there this week for an exploratory visit.\u00a0 (near the corner of 9th and San Pedro)\u00a0 Although none of the products appealed to us it was heartening to see that there are still distribution channels that are run by individuals and small businesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On the negative side LA need a facelift.\u00a0 It has far to much deferred maintenance.\u00a0 After visiting the LA Fabric Souk we drove up the Hollywood Freeway to the Valley.\u00a0 The freeway was in terrible shape and landscaping was depressingly trashy and shabby.\u00a0 LA you can do better than this.\u00a0 The first thing to do is to raise is your expectations.\u00a0 You never get a second chance to make a first impression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are not women in party burkas.\u00a0 They are displays of fabric in the garment district of Los Angeles.\u00a0 Nurit and I went there this week for an exploratory visit.\u00a0 (near the corner of 9th and San Pedro)\u00a0 Although none of the products appealed to us it was heartening to see that there are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1bE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4567,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions\/4567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}