{"id":205,"date":"2014-05-27T18:34:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2014-05-29T21:46:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T21:46:44","slug":"uncovering-our-shady-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering our shady past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0144.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0144\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0144.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0144-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0144-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>London was a scruffier city in a scruffier time, and I was a younger, adventurous self in the &#8217;80s.\u00a0 When I was in London last week, I felt like a Sebald&#8217;s unnamed character in Austerlitz, peeling back different (though relatively innocuous) pasts.\u00a0 By walking and being attentive to the images that memory throws up from its misty banks, all kinds of things came back. \u00a0I stayed with punks in Camden Town, went to raves and ran from the downstairs shower through unheated stairwells.\u00a0 I remember interviewing Adrian Sherwood, dub and roots producer in a recording studio behind the British museum, on Little Egypt street.\u00a0 Once Elle sent us for a weekend to interview the Sundays.\u00a0 That meant a nice hotel.\u00a0 I started musing on beauty and ecstasy and the self and divas.<\/p>\n<p>On another trip, I did publicity for my book Elvis for Beginners.\u00a0 Publishing was a tough business then, as it is now.\u00a0 I stayed in the bedsit of the publisher and had to put pound coins to keep the heat on. \u00a0But then I was traveling around, trying to be serious for BBC interviews when I was so excited.<\/p>\n<p>We have a history with places that aren&#8217;t home.\u00a0\u00a0 London was never home.\u00a0 Being there brings me to one of my favorite modes: being elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London was a scruffier city in a scruffier time, and I was a younger, adventurous self in the &#8217;80s.\u00a0 When I was in London last week, I felt like a Sebald&#8217;s unnamed character in Austerlitz, peeling back different (though relatively &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=205\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-3j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}