{"id":139,"date":"2003-10-10T08:12:34","date_gmt":"2003-10-10T08:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=139"},"modified":"2003-10-10T08:12:34","modified_gmt":"2003-10-10T08:12:34","slug":"when-mondo-met-allen-ginsberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/when-mondo-met-allen-ginsberg\/","title":{"rendered":"When Mondo met Allen Ginsberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winkie.org\/oldwords\/000063.html\">Sid remembers the Beat legend<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was half captivated by the fact that I was hanging out with Allen Ginsberg, fellow poet, and half captivated by the photos and stories of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. My heroes &#8211; his friends. I appreciated Ginsberg&#8217;s poetic talents, and wish I had spent more time grilling him on them rather than just his adventures with the crazies. I also wish I hadn&#8217;t been so stressed about his penchant for young boys &#8211; I&#8217;ve never been freaked out by gay people, but with my long (at the time), curly locks and my baby face that definitely did not look 18, I was worried about an awkward come-on and let this prevent me from opening up and taking advantage of some moments alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good chance for me to interject here that I never read &#8220;On the Road&#8221; till I was in my mid-30s. It didn&#8217;t change my life but it changed my perspective about what really matters. I imagine we all dream of living the mad freedom of Kerouac&#8217;s clique, but we don&#8217;t because other things keep getting in the way. What Jack &#038; Co. taught me was that those other things are OK so long as you really want to do them. It all matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sid remembers the Beat legend. I was half captivated by the fact that I was hanging out with Allen Ginsberg, fellow poet, and half captivated by the photos and stories of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. My heroes &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/when-mondo-met-allen-ginsberg\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}