{"id":1054,"date":"2010-06-01T23:25:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T23:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowtale.net\/diary\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2015-05-19T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:40:15","slug":"hers-his-austin-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Austin, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A precise replica of Lady Bird Johnson&#8217;s office, located on an upper floor of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library &amp; Museum on the University of Texas campus in Austin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1056\" title=\"IMG_4160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.slowtale.net\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_4160-460x345.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"IMG_4160\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To my astonishment, the oval office is also installed &#8212; at 7\/8th scale, including the wooden risers LBJ added to the base of the desk. (&#8220;President Johnson was a large man,&#8221; says the tour guide.) And all I can think of is Umberto Eco&#8217;s <em>Travels in Hyperreality<\/em>&#8230; which could bring us back to Torino!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1055\" title=\"IMG_4158\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.slowtale.net\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_4158-460x345.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"IMG_4158\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A precise replica of Lady Bird Johnson&#8217;s office, located on an upper floor of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library &amp; Museum on the University of Texas campus in Austin. To my astonishment, the oval office is also installed &#8212; at 7\/8th scale, including the wooden risers LBJ added to the base of the desk. (&#8220;President Johnson was a large man,&#8221; says the tour guide.) And all I can think of is Umberto Eco&#8217;s Travels in Hyperreality&#8230; which could bring us<a class=\"entry-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/?p=1054\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-diary"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}