{"id":45708,"date":"2014-10-08T22:53:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T04:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/tinkering-with-lack-of-greatness.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:37:23","slug":"tinkering-with-lack-of-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/tinkering-with-lack-of-greatness.html","title":{"rendered":"Tinkering with Lack of Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aw, but the surrounding failing shopping center is part and parcel of the Casa Bonita experience!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+The Denver Post<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We want to create something unique.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>STORY: <a href=\"http:\/\/dpo.st\/1y7XnP7\">http:\/\/dpo.st\/1y7XnP7<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/dpo.st\/1y7XnP7'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/xlnfwXQOCNiHe1YcFN-gR_now5ENbpRU9-gzy6BMZJpsAe_GAC6UkFfiXKWl6o-iNhTQAjLZL-CqfhYRMdOUmkEc15hasbvnPiRcNgK_jymksl5KjNZ7F-ZODDhD8QpWZBb5EMKP-foP95_nS6bpJjSV=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/dpo.st\/1y7XnP7'>Changes underway for strip mall housing Lakewood&#8217;s Casa Bonita<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe historic JCRS shopping center housing Casa Bonita in Lakewood has been renamed Lamar Station Plaza\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/4uQNapL4JFy'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aw, but the surrounding failing shopping center is part and parcel of the Casa Bonita experience! Originally shared by +The Denver Post: &quot;We want to create something unique.&quot; STORY: http:\/\/dpo.st\/1y7XnP7 Changes underway for strip mall housing Lakewood&#8217;s Casa Bonita The historic JCRS shopping center housing Casa Bonita in Lakewood has been renamed Lamar Station Plaza &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/tinkering-with-lack-of-greatness.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tinkering with Lack of Greatness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,72,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-food-drink-restaurants","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16101,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/for-those-with-an-interest-in-bonita-or-san-diego-history.html","url_meta":{"origin":45708,"position":0},"title":"For those with an interest in Bonita or San Diego history &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Oct-09 6:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... our good friend Mary Oswell just co-authored a book\u00a0with images from the history of Bonita, California, available through the Bonita History Museum. 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