{"id":29818,"date":"2012-06-06T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/06\/its-a-great-place-to-grow-up-los-angeles-as-a\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:46:15","slug":"its-a-great-place-to-grow-up-los-angeles-as-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/06\/its-a-great-place-to-grow-up-los-angeles-as-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a great place to grow up [Los Angeles] as a creator because there\u2019s<br \/>\nno intellectual hierarchy.  I remember going to a party in New York about<br \/>\n35 years ago.  They all called me Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.  I said,<br \/>\n\u201cYou, ma\u2019am, your name and phone number?  And you, sir, your phone number?<br \/>\nAnd you, sir?\u201d  And they said, \u201cWhy are you taking our phone numbers?\u201d I<br \/>\nsaid, \u201cBecause the night we land on the moon, you\u2019re going to get called.\u201d<br \/>\nI was in London when we did.  I called three of them, and when they<br \/>\nanswered I said, \u201cStupid son of a bitch,\u201d and hung up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Ray Bradbury, quoted in <em>Newsweek<\/em> (November 1998) (via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Jesselansner\/status\/210382328579620864\">Jesse Lanser<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>oh perfect creature<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/liquidiousfleshbag.tumblr.com\/\">liquidiousfleshbag<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a great place to grow up [Los Angeles] as a creator because there\u2019s no intellectual hierarchy. I remember going to a party in New York about 35 years ago. They all called me Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. I said, \u201cYou, ma\u2019am, your name and phone number? And you, sir, your phone number? And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/06\/its-a-great-place-to-grow-up-los-angeles-as-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}