{"id":62559,"date":"2018-10-13T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/13\/benjamin-myers-on-durham-i-spent-a-lot-of-time-up-trees-or-trespassing-on-roofs\/"},"modified":"2018-10-13T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:00:37","slug":"benjamin-myers-on-durham-i-spent-a-lot-of-time-up-trees-or-trespassing-on-roofs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=62559","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Myers on Durham: \u2018I spent a lot of time up trees or trespassing on roofs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The writer on growing up in the warm embrace of the suburbs and facing down skinheads with his hardcore punk bandMention Durham and people will inevitably think of two things: the ancient city with its stunning Norman architecture, the cathedral and university, or the coal-mining industry that flourished further out in colliery communities before being asphyxiated following the miners\u2019 strike of 1984-85.When discussing the north-east few ever remark on the suburbs, yet it was here, halfway between these two worlds, that my outlook was shaped. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/oct\/13\/mde-in-durham-benjamin-myers\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Myers on Durham: \u2018I spent a lot of time up trees or trespassing on roofs\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writer on growing up in the warm embrace of the suburbs and facing down skinheads with his hardcore punk bandMention Durham and people will inevitably think of two things: the ancient city with its stunning Norman architecture, the cathedral and university, or the coal-mining industry that flourished further out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}