{"id":291,"date":"2009-11-09T22:57:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2009-11-09T22:57:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:57:21","slug":"things-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"things i like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this short story by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amy_Hempel\">Amy Hempel<\/a> that blew me away &#8212; <em>In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried<\/em>. Near perfect stuff. She worked with Carver&#8217;s editor, Gordon Lish. If&#8217; you&#8217;ve not read her before, you&#8217;ve really got something to look forward to.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a Portlander and you ride a bike, I&#8217;m officially endorsing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citybikes.coop\/\">City Bikes<\/a> as the best repair shop in town. REI is great because it&#8217;s open late and there&#8217;s this one guy who really know what he&#8217;s doing and he&#8217;ll fix what needs fixing and not try to sell you a bunch of other crap.But he&#8217;s not always there. City Bike has just always done me right. Plus it&#8217;s a collective.<\/p>\n<p>Some favorite tracks from 2009.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sheila &#8211; Atlas Sound<\/li>\n<li>Tunguska &#8211; Cymbals Eat Guitars<\/li>\n<li>Northern Lights &#8211; Bowerbirds<\/li>\n<li>Island, IS &#8211; Volcano Choir<\/li>\n<li>I Poke Her Face &#8211; Kid Cudi<\/li>\n<li>Two Weeks &#8211; Grizzly Bear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this short story by Amy Hempel that blew me away &#8212; In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried. Near perfect stuff. She worked with Carver&#8217;s editor, Gordon Lish. If&#8217; you&#8217;ve not read her before, you&#8217;ve really got something to look forward to. If you&#8217;re a Portlander and you ride a bike, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}