{"id":3058,"date":"2011-11-06T19:19:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T19:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2011-11-07T00:58:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T00:58:28","slug":"the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/the-life\/","title":{"rendered":"the life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: GillSans Light;\">Some years passed, but I still did not lose  that sense of wonder about New York. I began to cherish the loneliness  of it, the sense that at any given time no one need know where I was or  what I was doing. I liked walking, from the East River over to the  Hudson and back on brisk days, down around the Village on warm days. A  friend would leave me the key to her apartment in the West Village when  she was out of town, and sometimes I would just move down there, because  by that time the telephone was beginning to bother me (the canker, you  see, was already in the rose) and not many people had that number. I  remember one day when someone who did have the West Village number came  to pick me up for lunch there, and we both had hangovers, and I cut my  finger opening him a beer and burst into tears, and we walked to a  Spanish restaurant and drank bloody Marys and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: GillSans LightItalic;\">gazpacho <\/span><span style=\"font-family: GillSans Light;\">until we felt better. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 270px;\"><span style=\"font-family: GillSans Light;\"><em>&#8212; Joan Didion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/~zkurmus\/html\/didion.html\">&#8220;Goodbye to All That&#8221;<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years passed, but I still did not lose that sense of wonder about New York. I began to cherish the loneliness of it, the sense that at any given time no one need know where I was or what I was doing. I liked walking, from the East River over to the Hudson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}