{"id":4399,"date":"2018-04-24T17:51:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2018-04-24T17:51:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:51:58","slug":"essay-in-the-monocle-travel-guide-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4399","title":{"rendered":"Essay in The Monocle Travel Guide, Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-25-at-9.36.16-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"658\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-25-at-9.36.16-AM.png 658w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-25-at-9.36.16-AM-300x292.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got an essay in the back of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/monocle.com\/shop\/books\/other\/the-monocle-travel-guide-seoul\/\"><em>Monocle<\/em>&#8216;s newly published travel guide to Seoul<\/a>. It begins with all the books about the city, its architecture, and its urbanism that have recently made their way to the shelves of Korean bookstores, continues on to the question whether Seoul can grow a distinctive urban culture organically rather than importing it from more established world capitals, and of course gets around to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lareviewofbooks.org\/the-korea-blog\/finding-new-seoul-old-buildings-kim-swoo-geun-architect-modern-korea\/\">Seun Sangga<\/a>\u00a0and what it says about the city&#8217;s past as well as its future. (I think I also had a short piece on Gangneung somewhere in\u00a0<em>Monocle<\/em>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/monocle.com\/magazine\/issues\/111\/?page=1\">s most recent Korea issue<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got an essay in the back of\u00a0Monocle&#8216;s newly published travel guide to Seoul. It begins with all the books about the city, its architecture, and its urbanism that have recently made their way to the shelves of Korean bookstores, continues on to the question whether Seoul can grow a distinctive urban culture organically rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monocle","category-seoul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","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=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4401,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}