{"id":215,"date":"2008-11-17T17:46:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T22:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2012-10-05T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:11:55","slug":"the-worlds-top-ten-ugliest-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/the-worlds-top-ten-ugliest-buildings","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Top Ten Ugliest Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I&#8217;ve been walking by the ugliest building in the world almost every day <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;saddr=Explorica,+Inc.&amp;daddr=City+Hall+Plaza,+Boston,+Suffolk,+Massachusetts+02108&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=FUdKhgIdsqrD-yFmCfkr6-MI6A%3B&amp;mra=pe&amp;mrcr=0&amp;dirflg=w&amp;sll=42.269598,-71.041797&amp;sspn=0.727617,1.235962&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=17\" target=\"_blank\">on my way home from Explorica&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/members.virtualtourist.com\/vt\/t\/1c7\/\" target=\"_blank\">virtualtourist.com<\/a>, <strong>Boston City Hall<\/strong> is the ugliest building in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think that&#8217;s a little harsh.\u00a0 True, City Hall does somewhat resemble a temporarily docked interplanetary mothership, but, I dunno&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the homer in me, but I think some of <a href=\"http:\/\/members.virtualtourist.com\/vt\/t\/1c7\/\" target=\"_blank\">these other buildings are equally, if not more, atrocious<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, <strong>Explorations<\/strong> is nothing if not democratic, so I&#8217;m leaving it up to you.<\/p>\n<p>What do you guys think&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/members.virtualtourist.com\/vt\/t\/1c7\/\">is Boston&#8217;s City Hall the worst of the worst, or is there a better choice among virtualtourist&#8217;s list for the top spot<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Any particularly galling buildings or monuments that you think virtualtourist left out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I&#8217;ve been walking by the ugliest building in the world almost every day on my way home from Explorica&#8230; According to the folks over at virtualtourist.com, Boston City Hall is the ugliest building in the world. Personally, I think that&#8217;s a little harsh.\u00a0 True, City Hall does somewhat resemble a temporarily docked interplanetary mothership, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/the-worlds-top-ten-ugliest-buildings\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[28,27],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers","tag-interesting-articles","tag-worlds-ugliest-buildings","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}