{"id":11,"date":"2013-03-04T01:08:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T01:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2013-03-21T23:05:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T23:05:50","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/tagged\/haight%20ashbury\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-182\" alt=\"haight-ashbury\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/files\/2013\/03\/haight-ashbury-195x300.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Haight and Ashbury: The Epicenter of an American Movement<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Haight and Ashbury is an intersection of peace, violence, flower children, and drug culture. This intersection was established in the public sphere during the summer of 1967, which has been dubbed the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/amex\/love\/\">Summer of Love.<\/a>\u201d This summer, in particular, is what started the drug revolution in what became the \u201cHaight and Ashbury district of San Francisco.\u201d This famous intersection and the area it designated became desirable because it was a place to \u201cexperience the drug culture, the culture of free love, and to<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">protest the US war in Vietnam\u201d (WiseGEEK).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Although Haight is a rather long street, its bohemian atmosphere is most prevalent at the crossing of Ashbury and within the local businesses and attractions that lead up to it from East to West. This location could be considered cosmopolitan, as it is filled with various personalities and characteristics; however, the fact that it is overall classified by a drug identified culture is no doubt. In fact, it seems that the culture of Haight and Ashbury promotes drug use and attracts drug users. Regardless of the controversies that exist due to the drug related violence that has occurred and does occur on the Haight, it is ultimately a place that embodies an older American lifestyle.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 From its origins in the sixties, to the current shops filled with paraphernalia and restaurants with entirely gluten free menus, Haight and Ashbury and the district it designates will always have an essence of the \u201csummer of love,\u201d and will forever represent a time that has passed amidst a large, modern, city.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haight and Ashbury: The Epicenter of an American Movement \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Haight and Ashbury is an intersection of peace, violence, flower children, and drug culture. This intersection was established in the public sphere during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/introduction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mcmitour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}