{"id":2663,"date":"2020-12-11T17:28:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2020-12-11T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:28:41","slug":"sunday-scraps-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/sunday-scraps-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Automat-Hardarts-Masterpiece-Marianne-2002-11-19\/dp\/B01FKWQEHK\">automats<\/a>, the first acceptable restaurant where women could have a meal alone in the 1920s \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diet_for_a_Small_Planet\">Diet for a Small Planet<\/a> \/\u00a0 an English <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Watts#refAitken\">philosopher<\/a> who made Zen Buddism quite popular but died of alcoholism \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life_Begins_at_Forty\">Life begins at 40<\/a> in the 1930s because 50 years earlier, I&#8217;d be dead by now \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.revdancatt.com\/collections\">plotter art<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/gallery\/2020\/dec\/01\/deep-dive-empty-swimming-venues-during-lockdown-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">empty lockdown swimming pools<\/a> which is perfect considering you could also go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Little-Book-Swimming-Safely-Incomplete\/dp\/B08P3H12HY\/\">swimming safely in a bunch of other places<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/itsuo-kobayashi-1787082\">imagine painting every meal you had for 32 years<\/a>? \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorothy_West\">Dorothy West<\/a> &amp; The Living is Easy is going on my reading list \/ A film about <a href=\"https:\/\/player.bfi.org.uk\/free\/film\/watch-the-west-london-film-1985-online\">West London in the 1980s<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/people\/joan-littlewood#\">Joan Littlewood<\/a> who was born in Stockwell started the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/laboratory-of-fun\/\">Theatre Workshop<\/a> and instigated the idea of a <a href=\"https:\/\/funpalaces.co.uk\/about-fun-palaces\/where-does-the-idea-come-from\/\">Fun Palace<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/eye-books.com\/books\/appius-and-virginia\">Appius &amp; Virginia<\/a> has been re-published \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/digest-202012\/corporate-reporting-era-artificial-intelligence\">Corporate reporting with AI<\/a> means picking your words carefully (and probably, sarcastically) \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Ritual-Its-Consequences-Limits-Sincerity\/dp\/0195336011\">Ritual and its consequences<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Why-We-Sleep-Science-Dreams\/dp\/0141983760\">Why we sleep<\/a> (because mine is terrible atm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of automats, the first acceptable restaurant where women could have a meal alone in the 1920s \/ Diet for a Small Planet \/\u00a0 an English philosopher who made Zen Buddism quite popular but died of alcoholism \/ Life begins at 40 in the 1930s because 50 years earlier, I&#8217;d be dead by now&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/sunday-scraps-27\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #27<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Sunday Scraps #27: some old London bits, some theatre and I wish there was more on sleep. #blogyourtabs #sundayscraps","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0317-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-GX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}