{"id":17953,"date":"2020-07-17T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=17953"},"modified":"2020-08-15T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:10:24","slug":"day-126-missed-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=17953","title":{"rendered":"Day 126: Missed Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw an <a href=\"https:\/\/flashbak.com\/photographer-updates-postcards-of-1960s-resorts-into-their-abandoned-ruins-388534\">interesting webpage<\/a> today that compared postcards from old resort sites with pictures from their modern day ruins. It made me think wistfully of &#8220;Beautiful&#8221; Mount Airy Lodge, which was once a big resort in the Poconos. It was heavily advertised in the NY\/CT area when I was a kid. My grandparents owned a vacation home, so there was no way my parents were going to shell out big bucks for a hotel vacation, especially since they didn&#8217;t have big bucks. So I never got to visit the fabled resort. It closed in 2001 and has since been demolished. There is now a Mount Airy Casino Resort built on the same site, but I&#8217;m not inclined to bring my family to a place with &#8220;casino&#8221; in the name. It&#8217;s seedy-sounding, not warm and welcoming like the &#8220;lodge&#8221; always promised to be. I guess I missed my window of opportunity on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw an interesting webpage today that compared postcards from old resort sites with pictures from their modern day ruins. It made me think wistfully of &#8220;Beautiful&#8221; Mount Airy Lodge, which was once a big resort in the Poconos. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=17953\">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":[],"categories":[607],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17953"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17962,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions\/17962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}