{"id":1494,"date":"2010-01-10T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/10\/frankenpines-the-world-over\/"},"modified":"2010-01-10T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T23:30:00","slug":"frankenpines-the-world-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/10\/frankenpines-the-world-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankenpines the world over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the success of &#8220;Frankenpine&#8221; &#8212; the ersatz pine that delivers cell phone coverage to parts of Lake George &#8212; fake tower trees remain controversial in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>(I call Frankenpine a success because I can&#8217;t see it even when I look.  Which is, I guess, a great zen metaphor for responsible development in the Adirondacks&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Now,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-01-07\/this-is-not-a-tree\/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL3#gallery=1182;page=1\">the Daily Beast website has a photo gallery<\/a> of less successful Frankenpines across the U.S.  These surreal images were captured by Robert Voit. <\/p>\n<p>For another take on this phenomenon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterseward.com\/index.htm\">check out the paintings by Lake Placid artist Peter Seward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What a peculiar alchemy.  Artists capture images of an industry trying to imitate nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the success of &#8220;Frankenpine&#8221; &#8212; the ersatz pine that delivers cell phone coverage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}