{"id":21662,"date":"2024-03-11T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T05:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=21662"},"modified":"2024-03-11T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T05:22:01","slug":"celebrating-subpar-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/11\/celebrating-subpar-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating &#8220;Subpar Parks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During our recent road trip to Death Valley, my 15yo son rolled his eyes at nature&#8217;s majesty:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;These mountains suck. They just look like lazy Illustrator gradients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the perils of raising a snarky teenage graphic designer.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xjg356viko\">pic.twitter.com\/Xjg356viko<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/1764706019975061680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>This made me chuckle &amp; remember &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Subpar_Parks\/K6M3EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/subparparks\/?hl=en\">Subpar Parks<\/a>,&#8221; a visual celebration of the most dismissive reviews of our natural treasures. My wife &amp; I have long decorated our workspaces with these unintentional gems, and I think you&#8217;ll dig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/subparparks\">the Insta feed<\/a> &amp; book (now complemented by &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/721880\/subpar-planet-by-amber-share\/\">Subpar Planet<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/subpar.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/subpar-796x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21678\" width=\"261\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/subpar-796x1024.jpeg 796w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/subpar-233x300.jpeg 233w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/subpar-768x988.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/subpar-1194x1536.jpeg 1194w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/subpar.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lighthouse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lighthouse-813x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21679\" width=\"267\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lighthouse-813x1024.jpg 813w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lighthouse-238x300.jpg 238w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lighthouse-768x968.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lighthouse-1219x1536.jpg 1219w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lighthouse.jpg 1338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our recent road trip to Death Valley, my 15yo son rolled his eyes at nature&#8217;s majesty: &#8220;These mountains suck. They just look like lazy Illustrator gradients.&#8221; Ah, the perils of raising a snarky teenage graphic designer.&nbsp; pic.twitter.com\/Xjg356viko \u2014 John Nack (@jnack) March 4, 2024 This made me chuckle &amp; remember &#8220;Subpar Parks,&#8221; a visual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21684,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662\/revisions\/21684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}