{"id":1254,"date":"2008-06-12T05:26:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T05:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2008-06-12T05:26:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T05:26:26","slug":"fifth_avenue_apartment_encoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/12\/fifth_avenue_apartment_encoded\/","title":{"rendered":"fifth avenue apartment encoded with puzzles by architect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was beginning to research an article about ARG genres when I came across this interesting tidbit. Without telling the client, an architect renovating an Upper East Side apartment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/12\/garden\/12puzzle.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=2&#038;hp\">included secret panels, puzzles, poems and artworks that &#8211; when they discovered it &#8211; led its residents on a scavenger hunt around their own home<\/a>.<br \/>\nA frequent topic at if:book is the fetishization of the codex in its irreducibly physical qualities. This project &#8211; complete with its own fictionalized Da Vinci Code-esque book hidden in the walls of the apartment &#8211; takes this to new heights, while arguably gesturing at some of the elitism (the costliness and exclusivity of <a href=\"http:\/\/imomus.com\/thought110600.html\">the postbit atom<\/a>) implicit in this fetishization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was beginning to research an article about ARG genres when I came across this interesting tidbit. Without telling the client, an architect renovating an Upper East Side apartment included secret panels, puzzles, poems and artworks that &#8211; when they discovered it &#8211; led its residents on a scavenger hunt around their own home. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,87,1299,1492],"tags":[2113],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-arg","category-new_york","category-post_bit_atom","tag-arg-architecture-new_york-post_bit_atom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}