{"id":1568,"date":"2008-10-24T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2008-10-24T10:04:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T09:04:02","slug":"iain-sinclair-banned-in-hackney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/iain-sinclair-banned-in-hackney\/","title":{"rendered":"Iain Sinclair &#8211; banned in Hackney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackney Council displaying their characteristic control-freakery and incompetence:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It seemed a diktat had come down from above that I was a non-person and should be barred from the library for the crime of writing an off-message piece on the Olympics. This essay, published in the London Review of Books, responded to aspects of the creation of the Olympic Park in the Lower Lea Valley: the destruction of the Manor Garden allotments, the eviction of travellers, and the famous &#8216;legacy&#8217; revealed as nothing more than a gigantic shopping mall in Stratford.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/oct\/22\/hackney-library-book-ban\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/oct\/22\/hackney-library-book-ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opendalston.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/dalston-author-iain-sinclair-banned.html\">http:\/\/opendalston.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/dalston-author-iain-sinclair-banned.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackney Council displaying their characteristic control-freakery and incompetence: &#8220;It seemed a diktat had come down from above that I was a non-person and should be barred from the library for the crime of writing an off-message piece on the Olympics. This essay, published in the London Review of Books, responded to aspects of the creation &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/iain-sinclair-banned-in-hackney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Iain Sinclair &#8211; banned in Hackney&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookzine-reviews","category-hackney-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}