{"id":43,"date":"2010-02-18T09:44:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-03-29T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:27:26","slug":"kim-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/02\/18\/kim-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kim Cooper\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0(“one of L.A.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brightest torchbearers” – Electric Literature<\/em><\/a>)\u00c2\u00a0is the creator of 1947project<\/a>, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned\u00c2\u00a0Esotouric’s<\/a> popular crime bus tours, including Pasadena Confidential, the Real Black Dahlia and Eastside Babylon. She is the author of The Kept Girl<\/a><\/em>, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles<\/a><\/em>. Her collaborative L.A. history blogs include On Bunker Hill<\/a> and In SRO Land<\/a>. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons of LAVA – The\u00c2\u00a0Los Angeles Visionaries Association<\/a>. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate<\/a> for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of\u00c2\u00a0Scram<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0a journal of unpopular culture.<\/em> Her books include Fall in Love For Life<\/a><\/em>, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth<\/a><\/em>, Lost in the Grooves<\/a><\/em> and an oral history <\/a>of Neutral Milk Hotel.<\/p>\n

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Kim is the creator of 1947project<\/a>, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s<\/a> popular crime bus tours, including Pasadena Confidential, The Real Black Dahlia<\/em> and East Side Babylon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}