{"id":2207,"date":"2010-12-09T11:13:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2010-12-09T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T19:17:02","slug":"i-love-la-or-why-i-dont-take-the-highway-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/i-love-la-or-why-i-dont-take-the-highway-home\/","title":{"rendered":"I love LA, OR: Why I don&#8217;t take the highway home&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night after being at J, B, and E&#8217;s for a bit, I took Santa Monica Blvd home. This way goes through a lot of LA neighborhoods, and thus I saw, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>a building (an entire 12 story-plus building) wrapped like a Christmas tree; an city block of Beverly Hills decorated with scenes of Christmas; a building lighted to look like it was snowing; the whole of West Hollywood decked to the nines, including a hopping Wednesday-night party scene, and glowing neon lights at every block; more than five burger restaurants (not fast food ones, either); a woman putting her eye-liner on while waiting at a light; a crashed car lit up with a sign saying &#8220;Do Not Drive Drunk&#8221; above it in front of the West Hollywood Police Department; a myriad of houses with Christmas trees shining through their front windows.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Christmas, LA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/buildingwrapped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2211 aligncenter\" title=\"buildingwrapped\" src=\"http:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/buildingwrapped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/buildingwrapped.jpg 216w, https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/buildingwrapped-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Building wrapped as a present&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night after being at J, B, and E&#8217;s for a bit, I took Santa Monica Blvd home. This way goes through a lot of LA neighborhoods, and thus I saw, in no particular order: a building (an entire 12 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/i-love-la-or-why-i-dont-take-the-highway-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[872,482,871],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-im-in-la-trick","tag-beverly-hills","tag-los-angeles","tag-west-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}