{"id":181,"date":"2009-02-18T21:37:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T03:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2009-02-18T21:37:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T03:37:41","slug":"mary-lum%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cedge-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/mary-lum%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cedge-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Lum\u2019s \u201cEdge Conditions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art follows NYC life&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen walking or driving in the city it is sometimes possible to detect the poetic subconscious of the place, the thing we cannot see but can only occasionally access through feeling. The sharp attention required for this experience comes from extensive looking (for nothing in particular), walking without distraction but implicitly always distracted.\u201d \u2014Mary Lum<\/p>\n<p>Plodding to the subway, trying not to spill the coffee in one hand all over my coat and at the same time maneuvering my shoulder so that my tote bag full of books doesn\u2019t slide down my arm, gazing with a mixture of envy and disgust at the brand new demonic black-brick apartment complexes going up on Union Avenue that I will never be able to afford, glancing at a peeling concert poster, leaping over dog shit, wondering when, if ever spring will come, smelling the exhaust and wondering if it\u2019s more polluted here or in LA\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bombsiteblog.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art follows NYC life&#8230; \u201cWhen walking or driving in the city it is sometimes possible to detect the poetic subconscious of the place, the thing we cannot see but can only occasionally access through feeling. The sharp attention required for this experience comes from extensive looking (for nothing in particular), walking without distraction but implicitly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/mary-lum%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cedge-conditions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mary Lum\u2019s \u201cEdge Conditions&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}