{"id":2143,"date":"2014-03-20T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2014-03-20T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T19:08:14","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e27-london-rambling-with-john-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E27: London Rambling with John Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2144\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" title=\"IMG_7385 (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_7385-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_7385-1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_7385-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall walks through Stratford, London with John Rogers, author of the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/thelostbyway.com\/\">The Lost Byway<\/a>\u00a0and the book\u00a0<em>This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City.\u00a0<\/em>They discuss how one should approach one&#8217;s first London shopping mall, a built phenomenon that has changed dramatically over the decades; his memories of playing soccer with rotten fruit in Stratford&#8217;s Shopping City; whether knowing the &#8220;other&#8221; London requires you to first know the standard London; how &#8220;ramble books&#8221; got him writing about unwritten-about places; the importance of feeling proud of wherever you live; the unshrinking &#8220;London Book&#8221; industry, whose robustness possibly owes to the difficulty of pinning the city down; comparisons with Los Angeles, where myths and easy definitions go uncontested; when Leytonstone went from part of Essex to part of London, and what that meant; the historical John Rogers, who got burnt at the stake; what constitutes his walking &#8220;practice,&#8221; which has earned him a reputation as &#8220;the drinking man&#8217;s Iain Sinclair&#8221;; the richer connection to the environment you feel when walking, and the aid to thinking it provides; how he first began blogging about his walks, and how the activity took on elements of journalism; his curiosity about London places and place names, and how walking facilitates the accretion of related facts into knowledge; his use of pubs as &#8220;third places&#8221; and of samosas as walking fuel; the Orwellian enjoyment of hardship; and his memories of riding the Docklands Light Railway into the sunset when he first came to town.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E27_John_Rogers.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 walks through Stratford, London with John Rogers, author of the blog The Lost Byway\u00a0and the book\u00a0This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City.\u00a0They discuss how one should approach one&#8217;s first London shopping mall, a built phenomenon that has changed dramatically over the decades; his memories of playing soccer with rotten fruit in Stratford&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","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=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}