{"id":186575,"date":"2023-05-13T13:58:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=186575"},"modified":"2024-11-28T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:14:14","slug":"substack-i-was-a-sinister-child-lazy-and-cynical-eve-babitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=186575","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was a sinister child, lazy and cynical.&#8221; &#8212; Eve Babitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/121206764-e1684000619532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-186576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/121206764-e1684000619532.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/121206764-e1684000619532-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/121206764-e1684000619532-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/121206764-e1684000619532-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nFor my Substack paid subscribers, I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/p\/desire-something-enormous-the-road\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another piece about Eve Babitz<\/a>: her impossible to imitate voice and the courage it takes to live life as a female swashbuckling romantic.<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<small><em>Thank you so much for stopping by. If you like what I do, and if you feel inclined to support my work, here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venmo.com\/u\/Sheila-OMalley-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my Venmo account<\/a>. And I&#8217;ve launched a Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Variations 2.0<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like to subscribe.<\/em> <\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my Substack paid subscribers, I wrote another piece about Eve Babitz: her impossible to imitate voice and the courage it takes to live life as a female swashbuckling romantic. &nbsp; &nbsp; Thank you so much for stopping by. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=186575\">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":[39,9],"tags":[2657,2739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186575"}],"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=186575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195583,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186575\/revisions\/195583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}