{"id":2956,"date":"2019-07-13T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:25:04","slug":"the-house-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2956","title":{"rendered":"The House of the Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/hocdb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/hocdb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2966\" height=\"2822\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2957\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now for something completely different. In the early 1970s, the avant-garde collective Ant Farm, best known for the Cadillac Ranch outside of Amarillo, build a lake house shaped like a giant penis for a Houston arts patron. Playboy shot it, and Woody Allen wanted to use it in Sleeper. Today, it&#8217;s a decaying relic, but when it was built it was a futuristic vision of what architecture could be. I think you&#8217;ll find its story surprisingly moving. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/architecture\/2019\/07\/12\/epic-story-ant-farms-house-century-texas-icon-wild-cant-say-looks-like\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for something completely different. In the early 1970s, the avant-garde collective Ant Farm, best known for the Cadillac Ranch outside of Amarillo, build a lake house shaped like a giant penis for a Houston arts patron. Playboy shot it, and Woody Allen wanted to use it in Sleeper. Today, it&#8217;s a decaying relic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The House of the Century<\/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-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}