{"id":1864,"date":"2010-06-13T20:47:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2010-06-13T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:47:38","slug":"favorite-things-amok-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Things: Amok Bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/amok_bookmark_blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1863 aligncenter\" title=\"amok_bookmark_blog\" src=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/amok_bookmark_blog.jpg\" alt=\"amok_bookmark_blog\" width=\"150\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my early years, I lived in Echo Park. I went for long walks with Amok Bookstore being my main destination. The folks who worked there never much talked to me or my friends but they didn&#8217;t hate us either like other Silver Lake shop proprietors who gave us the &#8220;buy something or leave&#8221; look.<br \/>\nWe appreciated their selection of radical literature, strange music guides and bizarre ephemera. There were no hipsters in the 90s but if there were, they&#8217;d probably like Amok.<\/p>\n<p>The original location was right behind where Casbah Cafe is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my early years, I lived in Echo Park. I went for long walks with Amok Bookstore being my main destination. The folks who worked there never much talked to me or my friends but they didn&#8217;t hate us either like other Silver Lake shop proprietors who gave us the &#8220;buy something or leave&#8221; look. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=1864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite Things: Amok Bookstore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,23,5,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}