{"id":394,"date":"2008-03-21T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/03\/21\/ninth-hennepin-bw-gods-bathroom-floor\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T21:34:33","slug":"ninth-hennepin-bw-gods-bathroom-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/03\/21\/ninth-hennepin-bw-gods-bathroom-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"ninth &amp; hennepin b\/w god&#8217;s bathroom floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/464-blocke.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180336411403151538\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/465-blocke.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/ctg\/2008\/03\/pack_up_all_you.php\">city pages<\/a><\/em> blogger just popped me between the eyes with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:1973_block_e.gif\">this<\/a> lively photo of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Block_E_(Minneapolis)\">block e<\/a><\/em> in &#8217;73, guaranteed to bring sweet and sour memories for old minnesotans. back then, it was seedy, sexy, scary, showy, and skeezy. today? <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:BlockE_2007.jpg\">not so much<\/a>.*<\/p>\n<p>as a west st. paul kid, i recall wide-eyed and wonderful trips to this part of hennepin avenue. then, as an intern investigator with the public defender, i spent more time with the area&#8217;s crime<em>. <\/em>though i saw too much trouble there to really romanticize the place, moby&#8217;s big electric sign still brings a li&#8217;l electric charge.<\/p>\n<p>tom waits wrote the block&#8217;s official soundtrack in r-rated tributes such as <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=rlI7vaxBm9o\">ninth and hennepin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=ktCocv-bBDg\">christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis<\/a>. if i squint hard enough through today&#8217;s spring snow, i can <em>almost<\/em> see the drunks, punks, and hustlers of old hennepin from my office window.<\/p>\n<p>waits is great, but the scene puts me in mind of atmosphere&#8217;s contemporary tales of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9gnP-NZs_8w\">junkie redemption<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D8Xz925jSNg&amp;feature=related\">minneapolis pride<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*for further study, james lileks offers a fine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/mpls\/blocke\/index.html\">historical photo essay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a city pages blogger just popped me between the eyes with this lively photo of block e in &#8217;73, guaranteed to bring sweet and sour memories for old minnesotans. back then, it was seedy, sexy, scary, showy, and skeezy. today? not so much.* as a west st. paul kid, i recall wide-eyed and wonderful trips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,1],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-uncategorized","tag-minneapolis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}