{"id":465,"date":"2012-03-02T01:09:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T07:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joecurry.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2012-03-02T01:09:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T07:09:36","slug":"continental-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/continental-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joecurry\/6945716025\/in\/photostream\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Continental Hotel\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7208\/6945716025_285dc9452e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Continental Hotel\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0365.60<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/aeonmn.org\/continental_hotel.aspx\">Continental Hotel<\/a> every day on my walk to work, and I&#8217;ve been trying to capture the green neon in the sign but the twilight must be at\u00a0<em>just\u00a0<\/em>the right moment. Finally at 5:30pm Wednesday, it worked. That was going to be today&#8217;s story, but intriguingly there&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n<p>Originally built as the Ogden Apartment Hotel in the early 20th century, it was designed for middle class worker housing and billed as an &#8220;apartment hotel.&#8221; The units didn&#8217;t have their own kitchens, and residents instead ate from a common restaurant in the building. It included modern conveniences such as private bathrooms, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murphy_bed\">Murphy beds<\/a>, and electric appliances.<\/p>\n<p>The building changed its name to the Continental Hotel in 1948. Today, it\u00a0offers stable, affordable apartments for\u00a070\u00a0formerly homeless individuals, and it&#8217;s operated by <a href=\"http:\/\/aeonmn.org\/who_we_serve.aspx\">Aeon<\/a>, a nonprofit developer, owner and manager of affordable apartment homes in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p>And that is a far neater story than green neon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Continental Hotel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lakesnwoods.com\/images\/Minnea95.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0365.60 I pass the Continental Hotel every day on my walk to work, and I&#8217;ve been trying to capture the green neon in the sign but the twilight must be at\u00a0just\u00a0the right moment. Finally at 5:30pm Wednesday, it worked. That was going to be today&#8217;s story, but intriguingly there&#8217;s more. Originally built as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[19],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wQXH-7v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}