{"id":25960,"date":"2012-02-02T04:10:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/ruins-2.html"},"modified":"2012-02-01T22:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T05:17:02","slug":"ruins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/ruins-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s remarkable is that North Brother Island is in the middle of New York City, in the water between the Queens and Bronx &#8212; a densely populated area with this location abandoned, restricted, and returning to nature.   #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.dailymail.co.uk%2Fi%2Fpix%2F2012%2F02%2F01%2Farticle-2094823-118BF861000005DC-841_470x706.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2094823\/New-York-leper-colony-Eerie-pictures-inside-abandoned-world-lost-island.html'>New York leper colony: Eerie pictures inside abandoned world of lost island<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStairwells strewn with debris and walls crumbling slowly to dust, it is the island that New York forgot for 50 years. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s remarkable is that North Brother Island is in the middle of New York City, in the water between the Queens and Bronx &#8212; 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