{"id":2805,"date":"2015-12-26T18:54:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T23:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2015-12-26T18:54:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T23:54:14","slug":"the-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2805","title":{"rendered":"The Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2806\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2806\" src=\"https:\/\/new.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015.png\" alt=\"2015\" width=\"540\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015.png 540w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015-300x296.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s always a good to be a journalist in Texas, but this year was something special: butt injections, a paranoid district attorney on the lam, a kid with a clock. As the\u00a0late, great Molly Ivins would have it, Texas politics is the finest form of free entertainment devised by man. Except sometimes<a href=\"http:\/\/artsblog.dallasnews.com\/2015\/12\/guns-and-the-end-of-civic-space.html\/\"> it&#8217;s not so funny<\/a>. Always, however, it&#8217;s interesting. To follow are some of the stories that captured my attention this year. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/res.dallasnews.com\/interactives\/steelhouse\/\">Man of Steel:\u00a0The Story of Robert Bruno<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2015\/marfa\/\">A Question of Vision in Marfa<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/res.dallasnews.com\/interactives\/buffalobayou\/\">Reinventing Buffalo Bayou<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/res.dallasnews.com\/interactives\/stretto-house\/\">Remaking the Stretto House<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/\u2026\/20150417-memoir-review-on-becom\u2026\">Frank Welch: On Becoming an Architect<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/fdmag.com\/\u2026\/inventing-northpark-center-similarities\u2026\/\">Inventing\u00a0Northpark Center<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2015\/the-broad\/\">Broad Appeal<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2015\/hospitals\/\">The New Parkland<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/\u2026\/20151113-at-the-nasher-guard-pe\u2026\">Patricia the Guard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always a good to be a journalist in Texas, but this year was something special: butt injections, a paranoid district attorney on the lam, a kid with a clock. As the\u00a0late, great Molly Ivins would have it, Texas politics is the finest form of free entertainment devised by man. Except sometimes it&#8217;s not so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Year in Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}