{"id":13058,"date":"2015-06-14T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=13058"},"modified":"2015-06-14T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:52:10","slug":"end-of-the-barbary-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/end-of-the-barbary-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Barbary Coast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Of its ancient glories nothing remains excepting a few battered facades, the tattered remains or signs, and the plaster nymphs and satyrs in the entrance lobby of the old Hippodrome, now befouled by dirt and penciled obscenities.&#8221;<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The Barbary Coast;<\/p>\n<p>Having survived fire, flood and the Sydney Ducks;<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t die so easily;<\/p>\n<p>The police can close its bars;<\/p>\n<p>The Navy can ban its sailors from visiting;<\/p>\n<p>But the Coast waits;<\/p>\n<p>What it has to offer the people want;<\/p>\n<p>The people will not be denied<\/p>\n<p>So<\/p>\n<p>It<\/p>\n<p>Waits<\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Herbert Ashbury, The Barbary Coast, p.314<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Of its ancient glories nothing remains excepting a few battered facades, the tattered remains or signs, and the plaster nymphs and satyrs in the entrance lobby of the old Hippodrome, now befouled by dirt and penciled obscenities.&#8221;[1]&#8211; The Barbary Coast; Having survived fire, flood and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13094,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions\/13094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}