{"id":180,"date":"2013-07-06T05:25:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T05:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/?p=180"},"modified":"2015-08-16T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T06:44:11","slug":"the-last-iron-curtain-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/the-last-iron-curtain-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The last iron curtain country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the days either side of the iron curtain coming down, there was much commentary about Soviet style housing projects, derelict industries, urban decay and the like.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/the-last-iron-curtain-country\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-181\" title=\"British Telecom satelite dishes, with high-rise housing in the background.\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODdhAQABAPAAAP\/\/\/wAAACwAAAAAAQABAEACAkQBADs=\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan-130119-0005_copy.jpg\" alt=\"Satelite dishes with high-rise housing in the background.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan-130119-0005_copy.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan-130119-0005_copy-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan-130119-0005_copy-455x300.jpg 455w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-181\" title=\"British Telecom satelite dishes, with high-rise housing in the background.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan-130119-0005_copy.jpg\" alt=\"Satelite dishes with high-rise housing in the background.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan-130119-0005_copy.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan-130119-0005_copy-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scan-130119-0005_copy-455x300.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_181\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 1034px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">British Telecom satelite dishes, with high-rise housing in the background.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>At the time, a few European friends I had used to tease me that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/projects\/the-last-iron-curtain-country-2\/\"> the UK was the last iron curtain country<\/a> \u2013 this was before Brit-pop and cool Britannia. When I recently dug out these old negatives, I began to see what they meant.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days either side of the iron curtain coming down, there was much commentary about Soviet style housing projects, derelict industries, urban decay and the like.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mono","category-gallery-image","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}