{"id":1967,"date":"2013-11-28T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T19:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2013-11-28T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T19:03:56","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e14-the-good-the-bread-and-the-ugly-with-sandra-hoj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1967","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E14: The Good, the Bread, and the Ugly with Sandra H\u00f8j"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1970\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" title=\"sandrahoj\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sandrahoj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sandrahoj.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sandrahoj-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in N\u00f8rrebro\u00a0with <a href=\"http:\/\/classiccopenhagen.blogspot.com\/\">Classic Copenhagen<\/a> blogger and photographer\u00a0Sandra H\u00f8j. They discuss the city&#8217;s current enthusiasm for tree-cutting; the small things in Copenhagen that draw her eye, from pieces of street art to weird details on houses; how she started blogging in the wake of the Muhammad caricature crisis with an interest in disputing the global perception of Danes as living obliviously in a land of pastries and fairy tales; her mission to describe &#8220;the good, the bread, and the ugly&#8221; of Copenhagen; the Danish tendency to nag about problems; what time spent in &#8220;cozy&#8221; Amsterdam taught her about her &#8220;sexy&#8221; home city; what time spend in Paris taught her about how Copenhagen could better respect itself; the bewildering array of political parties putting signs up all over the city, and how rarely their actions match their words; her desire for children to grow up in the same Copenhagen she did; the evolution of Amager, also known as &#8220;the Shit Island&#8221;, and what gentrification looks like elsewhere in the city; the scourge of Joe and the Juice; and her continuing search outward for more &#8220;traces of life&#8221; in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E14_Sandra_Hoj.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in N\u00f8rrebro\u00a0with Classic Copenhagen blogger and photographer\u00a0Sandra H\u00f8j. They discuss the city&#8217;s current enthusiasm for tree-cutting; the small things in Copenhagen that draw her eye, from pieces of street art to weird details on houses; how she started blogging in the wake of the Muhammad caricature crisis with an interest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copenhagen","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","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=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}