{"id":2135,"date":"2009-09-14T23:12:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T23:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-09-15T02:50:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T02:50:52","slug":"jim_carroll_rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2135","title":{"rendered":"Jim Carroll, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athlete &#8211; Addict &#8211; Poet &#8211; Hustler &#8211; Punk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/14\/books\/14carroll.html?_r=1&#038;hpw\" target=\"browser\">Jim Carroll died yesterday in New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He played high school ball with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; partied with Andy Warhol, and had his cab stolen by Salvador Dali.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7iBWU6Y3PmU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7iBWU6Y3PmU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nI walked into my neighborhood bar in Berkeley in 1982, and there was this wild Irish apparition declaiming onstage to a 4\/4 punk beat. We had a beer afterward, and I was a fan.<\/p>\n<p>Basketball Diaries was an entertaining history of a crazy period in American culture&#8230;his poetry was more hit-or-miss for me.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking and Entering, his later memoir, was entertaining and fascinating as an account of a man wrestling with his own moral shortcomings and desire for transcendence and normalcy.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP Poet &#8211; memoirist Jim Carroll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}