{"id":71590,"date":"2015-07-24T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T21:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71590"},"modified":"2015-07-24T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T21:59:45","slug":"mexican-la-no-longer-disappoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71590","title":{"rendered":"Mexican LA No Longer Disappoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/the-cities-americans-are-ditching\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* I guess this is why SoCal, and LA in particular, is no longer the subject of countless meditations on disillusionment and disappointment. The Grapes of Wrath is perhaps the ur-example, but it was an even more common theme in mid-century pop music- Albert Hammond\u2019s \u201cIt Never Rains in Southern California\u201c, Mark Lindsay\u2019s \u201cCalifornia\u201c, Bacharach\u2019s \u201cDo you Know the Way to San Jose?\u201c, Jim Weatherly\u2019s \u201cMidnight Train to Georgia\u201c, Glen Campbell\u2019s \u201cCountry Boy\u201c, and numerous others I can\u2019t recall off the top of my head. It seems nobody gets disappointed by failure in LA anymore, because since at least the Falling Down era, nobody really expects to succeed there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: * I guess this is why SoCal, and LA in particular, is no longer the subject of countless meditations on disillusionment and disappointment. The Grapes of Wrath is perhaps the ur-example, but it was an even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71590\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71593,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71590\/revisions\/71593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}