{"id":788,"date":"2010-02-22T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowtale.net\/diary\/?p=788"},"modified":"2015-05-19T10:41:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:41:16","slug":"suburban-exotica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Granada Hills, Los Angeles, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the Birdhouse House was a big thing a few decades back. These and their variations are all over the Valley (and, I&#8217;ve noticed, the Basin).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-789\" title=\"IMG_8353\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.slowtale.net\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_8353-459x345.jpg?resize=459%2C345\" alt=\"IMG_8353\" width=\"459\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-790\" title=\"IMG_8355\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.slowtale.net\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_8355-459x345.jpg?resize=459%2C345\" alt=\"IMG_8355\" width=\"459\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently there are many &#8220;imitators,&#8221; but the originals were by a William Mellenthin Company, built in the 1950s. They tended to have a birdhouse over the garage. (That&#8217;s about all I have time to dredge up on the internet right now, but am curious to learn more.)<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting trend: the Pagodatract.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-791\" title=\"IMG_8352\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.slowtale.net\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_8352-459x345.jpg?resize=459%2C345\" alt=\"IMG_8352\" width=\"459\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the Birdhouse House was a big thing a few decades back. These and their variations are all over the Valley (and, I&#8217;ve noticed, the Basin). Apparently there are many &#8220;imitators,&#8221; but the originals were by a William Mellenthin Company, built in the 1950s. They tended to have a birdhouse over the garage. (That&#8217;s about all I have time to dredge up on the internet right now, but am curious to learn more.) Another interesting trend: the Pagodatract.<a class=\"entry-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/?p=788\">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-788","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\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3260,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunner-sung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}