{"id":391,"date":"2008-04-09T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T19:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-04-08T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T04:17:37","slug":"imagineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Imagineering!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never actually been to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2187177\/entry\/2187180\/\">Disney World<\/a>, but this observation by Seth Stevenson was fascinating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Imagineering Field Guide to Disney&#8217;s Animal Kingdom <\/em>reveals that the imagineers deliberately left the parking lots out in front of this Disney-style zoo as bleak and barren as they could. A wasteland, with no strips of grass to interrupt the endless asphalt slab. They wanted to heighten the contrast we feel when entering into the lush, wooded Animal Kingdom park. The scheme &#8220;ensures that the immersion into nature &#8230; will be very impactful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My first thought upon reading this was: Screw you, imagineers! Parking lots suck enough as it is. You&#8217;re saying you made yours even more depressing than necessary, just so you could showcase some cutesy landscaping idea? Go imaginuck yourselves!<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;d gotten this indignation out of my system, my second thought was: Gosh, they sure do put a lot of thought into this stuff. Leafing through these behind-the-scenes books (I also have <em>The Imagineering Field Guide to Epcot<\/em>) brings to light, yet again, the insane attention to detail you find at every Disney property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never actually been to Disney World, but this observation by Seth Stevenson was fascinating: The Imagineering Field Guide to Disney&#8217;s Animal Kingdom reveals that the imagineers deliberately left the parking lots out in front of this Disney-style zoo as bleak and barren as they could. A wasteland, with no strips of grass to interrupt the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose","category-reflections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-6j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}