{"id":9244,"date":"2010-09-18T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T21:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2010-09-18T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T21:18:25","slug":"ideal-cities-read-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9244","title":{"rendered":"Ideal Cities (read: New Orleans)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ideal Cities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ideal cities are cities where the neighbors
\nplay soul music all night long & don’t care<\/p>\n

who they bother because who doesn’t like Holy Ghost
\nor Loose Booty? Ideal cities have at least one drunk lady<\/p>\n

outside the liquor store mornings, who asks you to hold
\nher cigarette so she can lean in to touch your baby.<\/p>\n

In ideal cities, the pharmacist knows your prescriptions
\nby heart. In ideal cities your neighbor sells pot to the cops<\/p>\n

for a living, though you’ve never seen him do it & most days
\nhe wears a caftan to glue rhinestones on the cement frogs<\/p>\n

in his yard. On trash night in ideal cities your other neighbors
\nswap stories in the alleys. Ideal cities<\/p>\n

have margins that aren’t pretty or bleak
\nand are without proper representation<\/p>\n

but have no grievances. My ideal city
\nhas a wish list written on the back<\/p>\n

of an envelope scrap, an\u00a0ATM <\/span>slip.
\nMy ideal city is peripheral and claims<\/p>\n

uneven sidewalks. In the ideal city
\nmy neighbor is a taxi driver.<\/p>\n

My neighbor is at sea.
\nMy neighbor thinks<\/p>\n

his house is haunted
\nwhile his wife’s away<\/p>\n

on business. My neighbor
\ngives a robber a glass<\/p>\n

of Chateau Malescot St-Exup\u00e9ry
\nand a hug. In the ideal city my neighbors<\/p>\n

are a multi-generational
\nfamily & one guy<\/p>\n

who puts chairs
\nin the street<\/p>\n

to save a spot
\nfor our moving truck.<\/p>\n

ERIKA MEITNER<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ideal Cities<\/span>
\nHarper Perennial<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ideal Cities Ideal cities are cities where the neighbors play soul music all night long & don’t care who they bother because who doesn’t like Holy Ghost or Loose Booty? Ideal cities have at least one drunk lady outside the liquor store mornings, who asks you to hold her cigarette so she can lean in to touch your baby. In ideal cities, the pharmacist knows your prescriptions by heart. In ideal cities your neighbor sells… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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-9244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2p6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9245,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions\/9245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}