{"id":958,"date":"2006-07-06T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T14:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=958"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:42:48","slug":"new-article-by-rebecca-solnit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/07\/06\/new-article-by-rebecca-solnit\/","title":{"rendered":"New article by Rebecca Solnit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ebookmall.com\/ebookonline\/images\/lsi\/s-image\/0\/0786523913.jpg\" \/>Rebecca Solnit, whose wonderful book <em>Wanderlust<\/em> I would recommend to any psychogeographer or public space enthusiast, has just posted a great article on public space and civic action to the Guardian&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn. People who are at home in their civic space preserve the power to protest and revolt, whereas those who have been sequestered into private space do not.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/story\/0,,1813684,00.html\">article in its entirety here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Solnit, whose wonderful book Wanderlust I would recommend to any psychogeographer or public space enthusiast, has just posted a great article on public space and civic action to the Guardian&#8217;s blog. &#8220;The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/07\/06\/new-article-by-rebecca-solnit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;New article by Rebecca Solnit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21758,6],"tags":[26,2762,549],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-walking","tag-people","tag-rebecca-solnit-rebecca-solnit","tag-the-guardian"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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