{"id":67,"date":"2015-09-11T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/?p=67"},"modified":"2015-09-17T13:44:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T13:44:56","slug":"week-of-914-the-roadside-window-onto-the-soul-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/week-of-914-the-roadside-window-onto-the-soul-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of 9\/14: The  Roadside, &#8220;Window onto the Soul of America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we explore the origins of a distinctive American cultural landscape, the &#8220;roadside&#8221; &#8211; how &#038; when it came to be, how Worcester&#8217;s history connects, and where we can find examples and legacies in our own locality today. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mermaidsofthelake.com\/photos\/July-August_2010\/diner_internal.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><strong>Tues 9\/15<\/strong> Workshop: How to Read Wikipedia.<br \/>\nReading: Raitz, &#8220;American Roads&#8221; (PDF on Blackboard). Bring laptops to class. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Thurs 9\/17<\/strong> Road Food.<br \/>\nExplore these links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worcesterhistory.org\/wo-diners.html\">Worcester Historical Museum \/ Diner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/travel\/explorene\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/03\/07\/ten_diners_stamped_worcester\/?page=full\">Ten Diners Stamped &#8216;Worcester&#8217;<\/a>&#8221; Boston Globe 3\/7\/2010<\/p>\n<p>Diner Lingo (lots of places on the web, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jitterbuzz.com\/diners.html\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinerlingo.com\/\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/theyalwayscomeback.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/lost-language-of-diners.html\">here<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fri 9\/18 or Sat 9\/19<\/strong> (we will plan \/ decide the details of this in class) &#8211; we&#8217;ll take a field &#8220;research&#8221; trip to a classic Worcester diner for dinner or breakfast (pay your own way)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mapsengine.google.com\/map\/u\/0\/embed?mid=zoUJg1dnnlac.klAGTubMInTU\" width=\"625\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beforeitsnews.com\/mediadrop\/uploads\/2014\/08\/b9aa7ebe049a7d4736d158876b2c62cdaf0f4204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beforeitsnews.com\/mediadrop\/uploads\/2014\/08\/b9aa7ebe049a7d4736d158876b2c62cdaf0f4204.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we explore the origins of a distinctive American cultural landscape, the &#8220;roadside&#8221; &#8211; how &#038; when it came to be, how Worcester&#8217;s history connects, and where we can find examples and legacies in our own locality today. Tues 9\/15 Workshop: How to Read Wikipedia. Reading: Raitz, &#8220;American Roads&#8221; (PDF on Blackboard). Bring laptops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}