{"id":34798,"date":"2026-01-22T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34798"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:24:25","slug":"not-mentioned-irvine-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/22\/not-mentioned-irvine-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Mentioned: Irvine, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Glahn, the new guy at Powerline, posts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2026\/01\/california-forever.php\" target=\"_new\">California Forever<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve been fascinated by this story since stumbling upon it a few years ago. From SFGate,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new Bay Area city backed by a secretive group of billionaires will be built \u201cnon-stop\u201d for 40 years, the project\u2019s CEO said in a news release Wednesday. The announcement further reveals the long-term commitment of California Forever\u2019s backers to creating a new city of 400,000 people, even after polling overwhelmingly indicated locals weren\u2019t interested in the idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wasn\u2019t this a plot device in one of those Roger Moore-era James Bond movies?<\/p>\n<p>Building a brand-new city in California in 2026 would seem to be the ultimate triumph of hope over experience.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like the story behind central Florida\u2019s The Villages, but with tech bros instead of old people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, it sounds more like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irvine%2C_California\" target=\"_new\">Irvine, California<\/a> to me, but I just read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/11\/book-report-honeymoon-with-my-brother-by-franz-wisner-2006\/\" target=\"_new\">Honeymoon with My Brother<\/a><\/em>, whose author was a lobbyist for the Irvine Corporation, which owned the land and built he city.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I cannot help but wonder if he is confusing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Villages%2C_Florida\" target=\"_new\">The Villages<\/a> which grew out of some real-estate-by-mail lots in the 1960s with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celebration,_Florida\" target=\"_new\">Celebration, Florida<\/a>, which was laid out, built, and sold by Disney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Glahn, the new guy at Powerline, posts California Forever: I\u2019ve been fascinated by this story since stumbling upon it a few years ago. From SFGate, A new Bay Area city backed by a secretive group of billionaires will be built \u201cnon-stop\u201d for 40 years, the project\u2019s CEO said in a news release Wednesday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34799,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34798\/revisions\/34799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}