{"id":110796,"date":"2015-12-07T08:41:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110796"},"modified":"2015-12-07T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:42:20","slug":"new-york-collage-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110796","title":{"rendered":"New York Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nycollage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nycollage.jpg\" alt=\"nycollage\" width=\"596\" height=\"597\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-110797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nycollage.jpg 596w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nycollage-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nycollage-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/nycollage-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhile New York is no longer the grimy anarchic dangerous New York of my childhood, there are still glimpses of that old anarchy. Anarchy that is strikingly beautiful. This collage, in Greenwich Village, huddled between two indistinct doorways caught my eye from the corner, as I passed by, on my way to meet Charlie, and I stopped dead in my tracks and had to go back and take a second look. I fell into its beauty, its hodgepodge (Frankenstein!), its collaborative aspect, images pasted on top of images, a collage of time, too &#8211; it took time for it to get to its current state, it took a lot of different people. <\/p>\n<p>It represents everything I love about New York. New York has become so generic in a lot of its neighborhoods and Times Square is Dead. It is no longer the Times Square that it should be. Buh-bye. Real New Yorkers stay far away from that hell-hole now. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to see the old New York, the grimy individualist New York, you have to keep your eyes peeled. It&#8217;s still everywhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While New York is no longer the grimy anarchic dangerous New York of my childhood, there are still glimpses of that old anarchy. Anarchy that is strikingly beautiful. This collage, in Greenwich Village, huddled between two indistinct doorways caught my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110799,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110796\/revisions\/110799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}