{"id":1777,"date":"2013-08-13T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2013-08-13T09:48:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T16:48:32","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e3-constellation-of-villages-with-lynn-garrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E3: Constellation of Villages with Lynn Garrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lynngarrett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1778\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" title=\"lynngarrett\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lynngarrett.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lynngarrett.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lynngarrett-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Colin Marshall sits down at the top of the Hotel Wilshire with Lynn Garrett, proprietor of popular online community <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiddenla.com\/\">Hidden Los Angeles<\/a> and fifth-generation Angeleno. They discuss how best to prepare Germans for their Los Angeles vacation, since their guidebooks have failed; which human needs the many persistent myths about this city fulfill; how here, you are your own salvation; the revitalization of the Los Angeles River, as against the notion that &#8220;all it is is dead bodies and gang members&#8221;; Los Angeles as reflector of the observer&#8217;s own particular hatreds; getting to know the city not as a city, but as a constellation of villages; her art-school exploration of the city back when she &#8220;didn&#8217;t know not to&#8221;; who hangs out and talks on Hidden Los Angeles, and which topics get them most fired up; the human tendency to get upset about change of any kind, whether positive or negative, and to adjust perceptions accordingly; what happened when Hidden Los Angeles went viral, attracting 250,000 followers; Caine&#8217;s Arcade, Skid Row charities, and all the other ways she&#8217;s found the community can help (when not arguing); what the followers teach her about Los Angeles, the city no one person can possibly know; and what she learns from leaving the city, as well as how she makes herself an outsider when in it.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s4e3-constellation-of-villages-with-lynn-garrett\"><em>Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em>\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: James Acomb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down at the top of the Hotel Wilshire with Lynn Garrett, proprietor of popular online community Hidden Los Angeles and fifth-generation Angeleno. They discuss how best to prepare Germans for their Los Angeles vacation, since their guidebooks have failed; which human needs the many persistent myths about this city fulfill; how here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}