{"id":3494,"date":"2011-11-09T08:03:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2022-04-24T17:59:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T17:59:30","slug":"new-york-city-before-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/09\/new-york-city-before-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City before TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SF author William Gibson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6089\/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson\">interviewed in <em>The Paris Review<\/em><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future. What we were prior to our latest batch of technology is, in a way, unknowable.  It would be harder to accurately imagine what New York City was like the day before the advent of broadcast television than to imagine what it will be like after life-size broadcast holography comes online.  But actually the New York without the television is more mysterious, because we&#8217;ve already been there and nobody paid any attention. That world is gone.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually&#8230; H.P. Lovecraft was there, he paid attention.  So did Helen Levitt and many other artists and writers.  There had also been a wave of recent academic books on many aspects of the culture and times of New York City in the 1910-1930 period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF author William Gibson interviewed in The Paris Review&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s harder to imagine the past that went away than it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/09\/new-york-city-before-tv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53727,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/53727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}