{"id":159,"date":"2010-07-10T23:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T13:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2010-07-10T23:03:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T13:03:03","slug":"ext-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Ext, Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This place, this city, is faceless and inscrutable at street level. Years walking its pavement lend an air of familiarity, but it is a mere conjurer&#8217;s fancy &#8211; a trick of the light. No-one who remains at street level ever truly knows the city. To see it from above gives context that cannot be had from the ground &#8211; gives distance without which the true whole can never be grasped. To know this city from the fifteenth floor is as knowing a friend, the face of whom brings not just familiarity, but comfort &#8211; not just memory of times past, but memory of times shared. To truly know this city, however; to know it as a lover; to know it so well as to predict its moods, to predict the topology of streets not yet walked; to _truly_ know this city, you must know it from beneath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This place, this city, is faceless and inscrutable at street level. Years walking its pavement lend an air of familiarity, but it is a mere conjurer&#8217;s fancy &#8211; a trick of the light. No-one who remains at street level ever truly knows the city. To see it from above gives context that cannot be had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}