{"id":658,"date":"2007-08-05T15:31:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T22:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:34:12","slug":"im-meeting-a-better-class-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Meeting A Better Class Of People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that I&#8217;d drive up to Barstow for the night and find some crossroads trucker (female) to demonstrate my might.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=449\">I go to swanky parties like Captivity a few weeks ago where Claire Hoffman introduced me to Joel Stein and Dana Goodyear<\/a>. They took this losing hand and made it win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2007\/08\/the_new_yorker_adds_la_bl.php\">Kevin Roderick reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Poet and New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear has begun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/danagoodyear\">Postcard from Los Angeles<\/a> on the magazine&#8217;s website. Her first blog post is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/danagoodyear\/2007\/07\/grey-garden.html\">homage<\/a> to the late <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undergroundgardener.com\/index.htm\">Elizabeth Stromme<\/a>, the Echo Park writer and gardener who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2006\/12\/elizabeth_stromme_writer.php\">died last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that I&#8217;d drive up to Barstow for the night and find some crossroads trucker (female) to demonstrate my might. Now I go to swanky parties like Captivity a few weeks ago where Claire Hoffman introduced me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laobservedcom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}