{"id":4706,"date":"2011-08-30T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2011-08-31T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:47:21","slug":"arto-monacos-land-of-make-believe-erased-by-irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/30\/arto-monacos-land-of-make-believe-erased-by-irene\/","title":{"rendered":"Arto Monaco&#8217;s Land of Make Believe erased by Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4707\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/30\/arto-monacos-land-of-make-believe-erased-by-irene\/arto-monaco-remains\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4707\" title=\"arto monaco remains\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/08\/arto-monaco-remains-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/08\/arto-monaco-remains-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/08\/arto-monaco-remains-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/08\/arto-monaco-remains-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/08\/arto-monaco-remains.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I trudged this afternoon through a silt-swept floodplain that used to be Arto Monaco&#8217;s fabled &#8220;Land of Make Believe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the first theme parks in the US, the site had been in disrepair for years, but weathered floods and ice jams with remarkable fortitude.<\/p>\n<p>No more.\u00a0 On my hike, I could find only shattered remnants of the magical place.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about his remarkable legacy,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artomonaco.org\/\"> go here<\/a>, or check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/2204\/20021220\/arto-monaco-the-king-of-make-believe\">my story about Arto produced a decade ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewing him in his Gepetto-like workshop was one of the highlight&#8217;s of my career.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing his creations lost in this way adds a tough dimension to the disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I trudged this afternoon through a silt-swept floodplain that used to be Arto Monaco&#8217;s fabled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706"}],"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=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}