{"id":101,"date":"2007-12-18T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/cf\/?p=101"},"modified":"2007-12-18T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T02:42:00","slug":"vampire-bat-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/vampire-bat-building.html","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Bat Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the walk home from the bus stop every night I can catch a glimpse of downtown Nashville. Currently most prominent in the skyline is what most locals call the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glasssteelandstone.com\/BuildingDetail\/595.php\">Bat Building<\/a>&#8220;, because its resemblance to Bruce Wayne&#8217;s alter ego was obvious to everybody except, it seems, the architect.<\/p>\n<p>The building really was called the BellSouth Tower until Bellsouth was assimilated by <strike>the <a href=\"http:\/\/catb.org\/jargon\/html\/D\/Death-Star.html\">Death Star<\/a><\/strike> AT&#038;T not too long ago. And it was this past week that the bright blue AT&#038;T logo was lit on the building, replacing the Tennessee tri-star logo, and looking for all the world like a creepy glowing cyclops eye.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpics\/2007\/bat.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me, I really oughta stop giving money to those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/homefront\/interviews\/klein.html\">shmucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the walk home from the bus stop every night I can catch a glimpse of downtown Nashville. Currently most prominent in the skyline is what most locals call the &#8220;Bat Building&#8220;, because its resemblance to Bruce Wayne&#8217;s alter ego was obvious to everybody except, it seems, the architect. The building really was called the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-nashville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}