{"id":2003,"date":"2010-06-28T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T16:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2010-06-28T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T16:58:55","slug":"a-visit-to-holyoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/28\/a-visit-to-holyoke\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to Holyoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2019\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/img_8667-sm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2019\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2019\" title=\"The Bud\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/img_8667-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Bud\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/img_8667-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/img_8667-sm.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back again in the Finger Lakes after a brief holiday including a few days in Holyoke.<\/p>\n<p>In January I was in Holyoke for a couple of days, but it was far from a pleasure trip and there was no time to look around . I haven&#8217;t been to Holyoke in maybe 7 years.   When my son moved out of MA, I lost the easiest lodging place and then, well, life just &#8220;got in the way. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This time around there was driving around time and frankly I was stunned at the number of buildings ready to be demolished. Some   &#8212; such as The Bud &#8212; were no surprise of course, but others were.   And I was to some extent reminded of my tenure in Brooklyn where the symbols denoting condition were on many buildings &#8212; many of them historic buildings &#8212; that had been left to rot on their own to make demolition possible.   Not saying this is true in Holyoke, but it was in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind new buildings done well, but it doesn&#8217;t happen all that often, and it saddens me to know next time around many places I saw during this last visit will be gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back again in the Finger Lakes after a brief holiday including a few days in Holyoke. In January I was in Holyoke for a couple of days, but it was far from a pleasure trip and there was no time to look around . I haven&#8217;t been to Holyoke in maybe 7 years. When my [&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":[445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}