{"id":40977,"date":"2025-05-08T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=40977"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:04:45","slug":"abandoned-malls-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2025\/05\/08\/abandoned-malls-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned Malls of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>Dying.<\/I><\/p>\n<p><I>For an index of all my book reviews, click <a href=https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/indexes\/photographers\/book-reviews\/ target=_blank>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Abandoned-Malls-America-Crumbling-Commerce\/dp\/1631585231\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1CEBIW7X4IQ0D&#038;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SrcUfQ67niVFZi0Fxm0LJmQ_doL5uEOHpcg5IEDE8TeJYOEUSW8xXR_hcuyepoheyrgoFzc5_lCXa-42O2RhRfV7ZpcQ6f6HLICO5wc4MBo876BlLKeXWx2SQX0RZ4Bwf9TZTjmR0O4pqTaRIVpPO1bW2qUlB_ecJ8hjLBa_o7fbxgKGdwyprKFpyYzW1UkLI7ENv_D4r5l46xVbbFsrOeeC7gK7WDSXM5pF58ld8vM.JS47B37mef6yG_Zg7ZwXKxBDJghVOu0SL8T1qQZSubk&#038;dib_tag=se&#038;keywords=abandoned+malls+of+america&#038;qid=1746730512&#038;sprefix=abandoned+malls+of+america%2Caps%2C164&#038;sr=8-1 target=_blank><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Abandoned Malls.jpg\" width=\"800\"><\/a><br \/>\n<I>Click the image to go to &#8230;. where else? &#8230;. Amazon.<\/I>.<\/I><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We live in a post-mall age.  Amazon has taken over retailing and, likely as not, the mall in your home town is now an Amazon fulfillment center.<\/p>\n<p>Seph Lawless&#8217;s fine photography in this large book makes for depressing viewing and I confess I could only take his images a chapter at a time.  But as a chronicle of what was once the quintessential American experience, the book belongs in any photo library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dying. For an index of all my book reviews, click here. Click the image to go to &#8230;. where else? &#8230;. Amazon.. We live in a post-mall age. Amazon has taken over retailing and, likely as not, the mall in your home town is now an Amazon fulfillment center. Seph Lawless&#8217;s fine photography in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2025\/05\/08\/abandoned-malls-of-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abandoned Malls of America<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40980,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40977\/revisions\/40980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}