{"id":1400,"date":"2009-06-01T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2009-10-28T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:35:58","slug":"karmic-desert-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/archives\/1400","title":{"rendered":"Karmic desert storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just spent a week in California, and some astounding things happened. Among the highlights:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-196\" style=\"border:solid gray 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radiogladio.it\/fosforo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/prop8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The California Supreme Court confirmed the outcome of the referendum on gay marriage (a battle that makes little sense to me, apart from social justice issues), which is now out until a new law is passed. There were demonstrations all over the country, including this one on Hollywood Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-197\" style=\"border:solid gray 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radiogladio.it\/fosforo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lcdsrt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My longtime friend <a href=\"http:\/\/mir.it\/servizi\/ilmanifesto\/losangelista\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luca<\/a> (seen here while embracing the void) took me to the Desert: Joshua Tree, the Mojave, Death Valley, Zabriskie Point &#8211; the lot. It&#8217;s an almost unbelievably amazing place, both as one would expect and very different in many ways: a major blast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-198\" style=\"border:solid gray 1px\" title=\"gxsm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radiogladio.it\/fosforo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gxsm.jpg\" alt=\"gxsm\" width=\"432\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Queueing to see the David Lynch photo exhibition (cute, but not quite up to his other stuff) I met by chance a persons I truly adore: the one and only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jupitter-larsen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GX Jupitter-Larsen<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t even know he had moved to L.A. We&#8217;re good friends, but have somehow lost track of each other in the past few years: a bad mistake, as he&#8217;s a great guy, a longtime friend and a fabulous artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just spent a week in California, and some astounding things happened. Among the highlights: The California Supreme Court confirmed the outcome of the referendum on gay marriage (a battle that makes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,49],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}