{"id":716,"date":"2012-06-04T19:02:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"raymond-chandlers-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2012\/06\/04\/raymond-chandlers-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Chandler&#8217;s Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bungalows. Crime. Hollywood. Blondes. Vets. Smog. Death.<\/p>\n<p>This was Raymond Chandler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Los Angeles, which resonated under deft and melancholy fits from his writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bow. Join us as we go down the mean streets that shaped his fiction, and that in turn shaped his hard-boiled times, in a four hour tour of downtown, Hollywood and surrounding environs: The Los Angeles Athletic Club, Musso &amp; Frank, the Hotel Van Nuys, Paramount Studio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gates, and much, much more, including a Chandler-themed gelato stop at East Hollywood cult favorite Scoops.<\/p>\n<p>Through published work, private correspondence, screenplays and film adaptations, we trace Chandler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s search for meaning and his anti-hero Philip Marlowe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s struggle to not be pigeonholed or give anything less than all he has, which lead them both down the rabbit hole of isolation, depression, and drink.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-716\" data-postid=\"716\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-716 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bungalows. Crime. Hollywood. Blondes. Vets. Smog. Death. This was Raymond Chandler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Los Angeles, which resonated under deft and melancholy fits from his writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bow. Join us as we go down the mean streets that shaped his fiction, and that in turn shaped his hard-boiled times, in a four hour tour of downtown, Hollywood and surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,14,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}