{"id":151,"date":"2006-01-17T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T02:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/one-of-my-favorite-la-landmarks-is-gone\/"},"modified":"2006-01-17T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T02:21:00","slug":"one-of-my-favorite-la-landmarks-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/one-of-my-favorite-la-landmarks-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"One of my favorite LA landmarks is GONE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ambassador_Hotel\">Ambassador Hotel<\/a> has been leveled.  It&#8217;s the hotel where Bobby Kennedy was assassinated and several of the early Oscar ceremonies were held there.  It was a great, crumbling icon and provided an awesome contrast to the mid-wilshire that has evolved into K-town (cool, by me, I love LA and all it&#8217;s people, especially if they make delicious food, which, supposedly LA has the best the best Korean food in the world!  delicious.).  Anyway, I guess it&#8217;s good that it&#8217;s gone (it was basically condemned) and we can move on, but it&#8217;s sad nonetheless.  Next time I make it over to <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.citysearch.com\/profile\/32402220\/los_angeles_ca\/the_prince.html\">The Prince<\/a> for some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soju\">soju<\/a> I&#8217;ll shed a tear for the Ambassador and times gone by &#8212; and then I&#8217;ll go have some delicious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcdtofu.com\/\">bibimbap<\/a>!  I&#8217;m very excited to watch and see where LA will evolve to next!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laist.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/17\/the_end_of_the_ambassador.php\">LAist: The end of the Ambassador<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ambassador Hotel has been leveled. It&#8217;s the hotel where Bobby Kennedy was assassinated and several of the early Oscar ceremonies were held there. It was a great, crumbling icon and provided an awesome contrast to the mid-wilshire that has evolved into K-town (cool, by me, I love LA and all it&#8217;s people, especially if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monathecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}