{"id":1988,"date":"2015-06-10T17:37:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T22:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2015-06-10T17:37:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T22:37:28","slug":"valparaiso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"Valparaiso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1170065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2008\" src=\"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1170065-1024x599.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti art of Valparaiso, Chile\" width=\"800\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valparaiso\u2026 What a town; a truly immersive, intriguing and inspirational visual experience especially for a designer like myself! At one point it was the main port for Chile, built into the foothill of the Andes only a couple hours bus ride west of Santiago. The town is a labyrinth of walkways, funiculars, stairs, and dead end streets that wind their way up and down the hills. It\u2019s like something out of Shoots and Ladders and a nightmare for fire fighters where many of the houses aren\u2019t accessible by cars, or streets for that matter. But it\u2019s also full of cute cafes, good food, and interesting architecture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1170102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2013\" src=\"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1170102-1024x175.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti art of Valparaiso, Chile\" width=\"800\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1170039.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2000\" src=\"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/P1170039-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Valparaiso, Chile\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Originally, all the houses were painted different bright colors so the sailors could see their house for the sea. A few revolutions, an economic down turn and less reliance on the port and now it\u2019s turned it into a creative hot bed\u2026. Especially for graffiti artists. The verdict is still out on if it\u2019s legal; some are commissioned by property owners and some are just vandalism. The verdict is also still out on if it\u2019s good for Valparaiso; some say it\u2019s destroying the history, while others say it\u2019s the progression of Valpo\u2019s culture. All things considered there\u2019s no denying that it\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valparaiso\u2026 What a town; a truly immersive, intriguing and inspirational visual experience especially for a designer like myself! At one point it was the main port for Chile, built into the foothill of the Andes only a couple hours bus ride west of Santiago. The town is a labyrinth of walkways, funiculars, stairs, and dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[138,191,192,193],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chile","tag-chile","tag-design","tag-graffiti","tag-valparaiso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}