{"id":9551,"date":"2007-05-01T22:40:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T22:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9551"},"modified":"2007-05-01T22:40:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T22:40:38","slug":"urban-explorationtunnel-hacking-hits-the-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9551","title":{"rendered":"Urban Exploration\/Tunnel Hacking Hits the Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" border=1 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/cities11.jpg\">As many of you likely know, urban exploring\/building and tunnel hacking (a.k.a. urbex) &#8212; like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geocaching\" target=\"new\">geocaching<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternate_reality_game\" target=\"new\">alternative reality gaming<\/a> &#8212; is a growing &#8220;sport&#8221; amongst geeks. Urbex has come to primetime TV, thanks to the History Channel and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/minisite.do?content_type=mini_home&#038;mini_id=53900\" target=\"new\">Cities of the Underworld<\/a>. I was pretty psyched before it aired and am certainly enjoying it (it sure beats America Idle). But I find the host really annoying, with his over-anxious, jumpy delivery that seems to not trust the audience will find the material itself cool without his &#8220;woah, isn&#8217;t this like SO awesome!&#8221; punch to nearly every statement. The content is&#8230; SO awesome, it&#8217;s a shame we have to suffer the host and the show&#8217;s ADD production approach to get to the good stuff, the astounding, and often astoundingly creepy, worlds that exist just beneath our feet. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you likely know, urban exploring\/building and tunnel hacking (a.k.a. urbex) &#8212; like geocaching and alternative reality gaming &#8212; is a growing &#8220;sport&#8221; amongst geeks. Urbex has come to primetime TV, thanks to the History Channel and its Cities of the Underworld. I was pretty psyched before it aired and am certainly enjoying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Urban Exploration\/Tunnel Hacking Hits the Mainstream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}