{"id":9191,"date":"2022-09-07T17:59:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=9191"},"modified":"2022-09-07T17:59:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:59:25","slug":"st-marks-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/st-marks-place\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Marks Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/745.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/745.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/745-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/745-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>..8:38pm&#8230;June 2022&#8230;St. Marks Place&#8230;the sun stays in the sky forever this time of year. it&#8217;s my time. chaos is my favorite character in the city. chaos, make me a deal not to leave me alone&#8230;.back from an intense three months in Europe. it usually takes a long sleep, then a swim to flick away the exhaustion. on the second day i&#8217;m already fighting the desperation of being in a country that has been torn apart by a horde of malcontents&#8230;..don&#8217;t worry, one day i&#8217;ll <a><\/a>be back to take retribution on what they&#8217;ve done&#8230;. but at the moment the only solution is to take another assignment while i&#8217;m stuck for a couple of weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>listening to Lou Reed&#8217;s &#8220;rock n&#8217; roll&#8221; on repeat while walking crosstown in the twilight. it&#8217;s played a dozen times since i started photographing. i don&#8217;t want to hear anything else tonight. i&#8217;ve never looked up at this rooftop in the thirty years i&#8217;ve walked St. Marks Place. the two people straddling the edge of the rooftop fire escape look like they are drinking from a champaign glass. earlier i stopped in stride when i saw syringes laying in a street gutter at the Stonewall. i refused to look down the rest of the way. maybe that&#8217;s why this is the first time i looked up at this rooftop. two more months until the I can return to the Odyssey&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..8:38pm&#8230;June 2022&#8230;St. Marks Place&#8230;the sun stays in the sky forever this time of year. it&#8217;s my time. chaos is my favorite character in the city. chaos, make me a deal not to leave me alone&#8230;.back from an intense three months in Europe. it usually takes a long sleep, then a swim to flick away the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[561],"class_list":["post-9191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9193,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions\/9193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}