{"id":597,"date":"2005-03-09T10:20:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T10:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2005-03-09T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T10:20:47","slug":"in-the-beginning-there-was-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/in-the-beginning-there-was-punk\/","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning there was punk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How did it happen? Here is the short version. It was 1981. I was living in London and working in a factory making Durex condoms, but also a member of the (Kill Your Pet) Puppy Collective. Don&#8217;t worry. No puppies were ever killed, it was a metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>We went to see the Barracudas play at the Hope and Anchor pub in Islington. Some Puppies were persuaded to go to a rival attraction, a squatted church on the Pentonville Road called the Parallel Universe. Somehow, via a gay punk squat on Huntingdon Street in Islington, this Parallel Universe later fused with a search for magic mushrooms at dawn on Hampstead Heath and seeing The Mob play a free gig in an adventure playground on Parliament Hill Fields.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know how everyone has this mental list of people they would love to do a blog, but they never will? Well one of mine just started one!<\/p>\n<p>Alistair is now up at <a href=\"http:\/\/greengalloway.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/greengalloway.blogspot.com\/<\/a>. If his blog ends up with a fraction of the stuff he&#8217;s sent me in emails and letters, then it will one of the best things ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did it happen? Here is the short version. It was 1981. I was living in London and working in a factory making Durex condoms, but also a member of the (Kill Your Pet) Puppy Collective. Don&#8217;t worry. No puppies were ever killed, it was a metaphor. We went to see the Barracudas play at &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/in-the-beginning-there-was-punk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;In the beginning there was punk&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}