{"id":12970,"date":"2013-08-27T20:55:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T01:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=12970"},"modified":"2013-08-27T20:55:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T01:55:54","slug":"the-secret-life-of-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=12970","title":{"rendered":"The secret life of buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was thinking, what if we lived in an alternate universe where buildings were never designed to stay in one place.  Yes, a building would be a single or multiple family dwelling, but it would also be a vehicle, a kind of self-propelling communal caravan.<\/p>\n<p>Cities would form spontaneously as buildings came together in critical mass, and then they would drift, as dictated by the mysteries of time, fashion and economic circumstance.  A person&#8217;s address would be a dynamic thing, an ever changing variable of lived experience.<\/p>\n<p>Some buildings might wander south for the winter, others would cluster together in solidarity.  Perhaps they would travel in packs, a pride of abodes drifting across the landscape in slow and regal splendor.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, this evening I saw an episode of &#8220;Fringe&#8221; that took place in an alternate version of our universe.  As you can see in the picture below, our well-worn trope of the well appointed Yuppie kitchen has been selectively modified.  The happy couple draws their fine wine from a box, their expensive steak from a can.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/alternate-fringe.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I watched this scene, I couldn&#8217;t help wondering whether their building would migrate south for the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was thinking, what if we lived in an alternate universe where buildings were never designed to stay in one place. Yes, a building would be a single or multiple family dwelling, but it would also be a vehicle, a kind of self-propelling communal caravan. Cities would form spontaneously as buildings came together in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=12970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The secret life of buildings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12978,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions\/12978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}