{"id":4025,"date":"2002-09-15T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-15T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/15\/city-speak\/"},"modified":"2002-09-15T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-15T20:24:00","slug":"city-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/15\/city-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"City Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Background:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Warren Ellis<\/a> created a character called Jack Hawksmoor in his pre <i>Authority<\/i> run on <i>StormWatch<\/i>. The concept behind the character is pretty fascinating. Since he was very young, Hawksmoor has been abducted by aliens on a regular basis and changed. He was designed to live in cities, there he has special gifts and powers. One of these is the ability to communicate with the <b>city as a living being<\/b>. He is a really great character. <\/p>\n<p>Thought:<br \/>\nI was browsing some blogs using Bloggers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/redirect\/next_blog.pyra\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Random Blog<\/a> feature. One of the blogs I found was based off of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montreal.com\/\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Montreal.com<\/a>. The thought struck me. Yeah it happens every now and again and yes they can be fairly strange. How very cool would it be to read a blog about a city <b>by<\/b> a city. Ok so it is a way out concept but to be able to read about the events that shape a city on a daily basis and affect so many people would be fairly awesome. <\/p>\n<p>On a whole other note I just saw a tag for a blog on a random list and I think it is a pretty good thought. <i>This blog is my therapy<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: Warren Ellis created a character called Jack Hawksmoor in his pre Authority run on StormWatch. The concept behind the character is pretty fascinating. Since he was very young, Hawksmoor has been abducted by aliens on a regular basis and changed. He was designed to live in cities, there he has special gifts and powers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/15\/city-speak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City Speak&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}