{"id":1521,"date":"2007-07-16T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2007-07-16T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T06:47:00","slug":"day-196-%e2%80%94-jungle-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/project-365\/day-196-%e2%80%94-jungle-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 196 \u2014 Jungle Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

[for Sunday, July 15]<\/p>\n

\"jungle<\/a><\/p>\n

I made my first trip to Graceland today, tagging along with Rebecca and her mom and mom’s boyfriend, who were visiting from Texas. Ho. Lee. Crap. That place is furnished in suede and carpeted from floor to ceiling in the tackiest colors you can possibly imagine. And there are mirrors everywhere<\/i>. It is kitsch defined. Kitsch squared. A bizarre little bubble of weirdness trapped in the amber of rock ‘n’ roll history. Such an interesting place: Small, compared to the cavernous mansions built by celebrities these days, and completely eccentric. It’s macabre enough to be traipsing around in a dead person’s house, around the eclectic accoutrements that comprise someone’s intimate dwellings, but it’s even more macabre to go stomping around a gravesite, taking pictures. But, that’s what people do, I suppose. I certainly didn’t think twice about snapping photos of every mundane swatch of fabric or ashtray in the place.<\/p>\n

I just kept wondering what it must be like for Lisa Marie to know that her childhood home is a tourist trap. Talk about never being able to go back.<\/p>\n

More pictures are here<\/a>, if you’ve got the stomach for the fabulous midcentury color schemes. <\/p>\n

Project 365<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[for Sunday, July 15] I made my first trip to Graceland today, tagging along with Rebecca and her mom and mom’s boyfriend, who were visiting from Texas. Ho. Lee. Crap. That place is furnished in suede and carpeted from floor to ceiling in the tackiest colors you can possibly imagine. And there are mirrors everywhere. It is kitsch defined. Kitsch squared. A bizarre little bubble of weirdness trapped in the amber of rock ‘n’ roll… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memphis","category-project-365"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-ox","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}