{"id":45858,"date":"2019-03-25T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45858"},"modified":"2019-03-30T21:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T01:38:17","slug":"whats-a-detective-without-his-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/25\/whats-a-detective-without-his-city\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a Detective Without His City?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article on <em>CrimeReads<\/em>, Adam Abramowitz, author of\u00a0<em>Bosstown<\/em>\u00a0and <em>A Town Called Malice, <\/em>laments the gentrification of cities and neighborhoods that have given rise to the greatest noir fiction. What happens when those beautiful, gone-to-seed streets have been yogurt stores and craft brews?\u00a0&#8220;Think about a novel\u2019s character, it\u2019s not the plot that usually comes to mind, it\u2019s the city or region that they covered,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;We all conjure our own secret maps of these cities, our own stories and scars, but the gentrification of these places threatens to smooth them all out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crimereads.com\/noir-in-the-era-of-gentrification\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/esOA3o92zxE?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">David Sinclair<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/spy?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article on CrimeReads, Adam Abramowitz, author of\u00a0Bosstown\u00a0and A Town Called Malice, laments the gentrification of cities and neighborhoods that have given rise to the greatest noir fiction. What happens when those beautiful, gone-to-seed streets have been yogurt stores and craft brews?\u00a0&#8220;Think about a novel\u2019s character, it\u2019s not the plot that usually comes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[474,442],"tags":[490,463],"class_list":["post-45858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-mystery","category-the-writing-life","tag-atmosphere","tag-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46512,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45858\/revisions\/46512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}