{"id":63,"date":"2009-09-14T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-09-14T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T08:45:00","slug":"jim-carroll-died-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Jim Carroll died this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/017752-757080.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/017752-757076.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came to know of Jim Carroll via the book <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Basketball Diaries<\/span>, not unlike everyone else I was going to school with at VCU in the very early eighties. Truth is, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">TBD<\/span> is a fun read &#8211; not unlike <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Trainspotting<\/span> is a fun movie. (irony intended)<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until I started reading his poetry that I really started to understand how interesting an artist he really was. I still read his work and will miss the fact that I wont be able to read what he might have produced in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came to know of Jim Carroll via the book The Basketball Diaries, not unlike everyone else I was going to school with at VCU in the very early eighties. Truth is, TBD is a fun read &#8211; not unlike Trainspotting is a fun movie. (irony intended) It wasn&#8217;t until I started reading his poetry that I really started to understand how interesting an artist he really was. I still read his work and will miss the fact that I wont be able to read what he might have produced in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[136],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}