{"id":757,"date":"2006-01-05T13:52:52","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T12:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2006-01-05T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T12:52:52","slug":"societyguardiancouk-communities-hari-kunzru-a-dispatch-from-tonys-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/societyguardiancouk-communities-hari-kunzru-a-dispatch-from-tonys-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"A dispatch from Tony\u2019s cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Though my corner of Hackney has yet to attain a Middle-Earth level of cosmic grandeur, the ongoing battle between local people and the forces of regeneration has been growing in stature.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got our very own Dark Lord, in the shape of a property developer called Dr Roger Wratten, who has an underground island base in Tunbridge Wells and a henchman with a glass eye.<\/p>\n<p>Ranged against him is a hobbit-like band of local people, who since late November have been barricaded inside Francesca&#8217;s cafe at 34 Broadway Market, blocking Wratten from pulling it down to build a block of flats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/society.guardian.co.uk\/communities\/comment\/0,16289,1678351,00.html\">SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Communities | Hari Kunzru: A dispatch from Tony&#8217;s cafe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plus see also coverage in the Evening Standard, La Republica, Der Spiegel, Hackney Gazette, you name it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though my corner of Hackney has yet to attain a Middle-Earth level of cosmic grandeur, the ongoing battle between local people and the forces of regeneration has been growing in stature. We&#8217;ve got our very own Dark Lord, in the shape of a property developer called Dr Roger Wratten, who has an underground island base &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/societyguardiancouk-communities-hari-kunzru-a-dispatch-from-tonys-cafe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;A dispatch from Tony\u2019s cafe&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":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hackney-london","category-politricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}