{"id":60,"date":"2006-04-12T03:14:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/04\/12\/a-machine-for-the-ego\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:40:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:40:14","slug":"a-machine-for-the-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/04\/12\/a-machine-for-the-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"A Machine for the Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/inline\/star.gif\" class=\"inline_image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Le Corbusier called the house a machine for living.  Apparently Frank Gehry believes a building to be a machine for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ago.net\/info\/ago_exhibitions\/exhibition_specific.cfm?ID=3358\" terget=\"histrionics\">proclaiming his self-indulgent ego and stylistic histrionics<\/a>.  Sometimes I feel like I&#8217;m the only one with a deep bowel-felt revulsion for nearly every pointlessly melodramatic curved surface Gehry starchetects?  Gah!<\/p>\n<p>Just follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fat.co.uk\/howto\/\" target=\"howto\" rel=\"noopener\">these simple steps<\/a> and you too can become a solipsistic starchitect in no time flat.  You might even attract a few groupies.  Of course you won&#8217;t actually need them due to your masterfully cultivated intellectual onanism.  But thier bottomless adulation adds a little juice to your only real product: ego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Corbusier called the house a machine for living. Apparently Frank Gehry believes a building to be a machine for proclaiming his self-indulgent ego and stylistic histrionics. Sometimes I feel like I&#8217;m the only one with a deep bowel-felt revulsion for nearly every pointlessly melodramatic curved surface Gehry starchetects? Gah! Just follow these simple steps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}