{"id":8314,"date":"2014-06-18T23:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T23:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=8314"},"modified":"2014-06-18T23:19:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T23:19:14","slug":"with-forty-dollars-and-a-one-way-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/with-forty-dollars-and-a-one-way-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"so&#8211;paris. with forty dollars and a one-way ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n379weMUfA1qk7pano1_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8316\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n379weMUfA1qk7pano1_500.jpg\" alt=\"JAMES BALDWIN\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n379weMUfA1qk7pano1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n379weMUfA1qk7pano1_500-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>james baldwin (via <a href=\"http:\/\/cordjefferson.tumblr.com\/post\/81071409517\" target=\"_blank\">cordjefferson<\/a>). reminds me of this quote from this great <em>paris review <\/em>interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2994\/the-art-of-fiction-no-78-james-baldwin\" target=\"_blank\">baldwin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, in retrospect, what it came down to was that I would not allow myself to be defined by other people, white or black. It was beneath me to blame anybody for what happened to me. What happened to me was <em>my<\/em> responsibility. I didn\u2019t want any pity. \u201cLeave me alone, I\u2019ll figure it out.\u201d I was very wounded and I was very dangerous because you become what you hate. It\u2019s what happened to my father and I didn\u2019t want it to happen to me. His hatred was suppressed and turned against himself. He couldn\u2019t let it out\u2014he could only let it out in the house with rage, and I found it happening to myself as well. And after my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So\u2014Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>james baldwin (via cordjefferson). reminds me of this quote from this great paris review interview with baldwin: Well, in retrospect, what it came down to was that I would not allow myself to be defined by other people, white or black. It was beneath me to blame anybody for what happened to me. What happened [&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-8314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","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=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8322,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions\/8322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}