{"id":12337,"date":"2022-11-08T11:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12337"},"modified":"2022-12-03T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:06:31","slug":"the-retrologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/08\/the-retrologist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Retrologist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/internet\/retrologist-instagram-wondercade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from InsideHook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meet the Man Behind the Instagram Feed That Captures the Coolest Images of Roadside America<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Neil Patrick Harris chats with The Retrologist creator Rolando Pujol about life on the road and his favorite kitschy corners of the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BY\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/neilpatrickharris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NEIL PATRICK HARRIS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Issue48_Act2_IH_Hero.jpg?fit=1200%2C800\" alt=\"Posts from The Retrologist Instagram account\" style=\"width: 480px;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Some of The Retrologists finds \/ The Retrologist via IG<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I absolutely adore almost anything vintage. Anything timeworn. Classic. I\u2019d type this newsletter on a brass 19th-century typewriter, if I could. (Actually\u2026who\u2019s to say I don\u2019t? Full disclosure: I don\u2019t.) I don\u2019t just love old things because they\u2019re old, though \u2014 I love old things that emblemize a bygone era. That no time capsule would be complete without. That\u2019s why\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rolandopujol\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Retrologist<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is one of my favorite things on the internet right now: journalist \/ photographer \/ chronicler Rolando Pujol shares the same appreciation for antiquity that I do. Every post is a tribute to the iconic roadside architecture and signage that dot the U.S., beautifully photographed and written with deeply insightful, loving details. Rolando documents a disappearing Americana, and I\u2019m so glad he does. I exchanged emails with him so we could talk about the magic he captures. And creates.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/internet\/retrologist-instagram-wondercade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at InsideHook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from InsideHook Meet the Man Behind the Instagram Feed That Captures the Coolest Images of Roadside America Neil Patrick Harris chats with The Retrologist creator Rolando Pujol about life on the road and his favorite kitschy corners of the country BY\u00a0NEIL PATRICK HARRIS Some of The Retrologists finds \/ The Retrologist via IG I absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}