{"id":169,"date":"2014-12-04T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lazlo.us\/urbex\/?p=169"},"modified":"2021-06-23T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:38:01","slug":"southington-forge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lazlo.us\/urbex\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Ideal Forging Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great example to the ruinous death to American heavy industry. This place has been abandoned just 11 years ago and it is slated for demolition. The giant machines stand like sentinels inside the enormous workshops, waiting in vain for the return of the people once worked there. 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