{"id":11,"date":"2012-07-21T19:39:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T19:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2012-08-13T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T17:57:15","slug":"the-polyester-of-brick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"The Polyester of Brick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_95\" style=\"width: 935px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/formstone-925x625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95\" title=\"formstone-925x625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/formstone-925x625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"925\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/formstone-925x625.jpg 925w, https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/formstone-925x625-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street full of formstone (Image source: http:\/\/www.wonderingtheworld.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Siri and I are really jumping into this Baltimore thing with both feet. \u00a0We love Baltimore and all its quirks. \u00a0(Heck, we entered the Kinetic Sculpture Race before we even moved here.) \u00a0As home buyers, one of the things to learn about Baltimore architecture is Formstone. \u00a0Here is an article that explains more about this great look.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Formstone. Perma-Stone. Rostone. By whatever trade name, the mere mention of simulated masonry can cause a wide range of reactions\u2014from the rolling eyes of homeowners who want desperately to be rid of it, to passionate defense by preservationists of 20th-century building materials.<\/p>\n<p>Perma-Stone is such a common trade name that it\u2019s almost become generic for any of the cement-like materials applied to exterior walls and manipulated to look like stone. If you hail from Baltimore and environs, though, the name you probably know is Formstone, which native son and avant-garde film director John Waters called \u201cthe polyester of brick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/welcometobaltimorehon.com\/the-story-behind-formstone\">http:\/\/welcometobaltimorehon.com\/the-story-behind-formstone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siri and I are really jumping into this Baltimore thing with both feet. \u00a0We love Baltimore and all its quirks. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=11\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}