{"id":147,"date":"2005-09-12T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/life\/jp_worlds_fair.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"jp_worlds_fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2005\/09\/12\/jp_worlds_fair","title":{"rendered":"JP World&#8217;s Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Yesterday, Esther, Rachele, and I attented the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpworldsfair.org\/\">Jamaica Plain World&#8217;s Fair<\/a>. This is an annual street party in our former neighborhood (just a couple miles from where we live now). Lots of street vendors, live music, arts and crafts, and people dancing in the streets. <\/p>\n<p> This Latin\/African diaspora band, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ziliroots.com\">zili roots<\/a>, was great: <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.rosi-kessel.org\/big_jp_worlds_fair_band.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.rosi-kessel.org\/jp_worlds_fair_band.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> You&#8217;ll notice that Turkey Hill, the provider of the cow, had a big presence at the festival. We also got a huge plate of Indian food from India Palace for $3: <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.rosi-kessel.org\/big_jp_worlds_fair_food.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.rosi-kessel.org\/jp_worlds_fair_food.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> Unfortunately, most of the food is obscured by the chappatis, but rest assured there was a lot of it. My daughter Esther slept through the whole thing: <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.rosi-kessel.org\/big_jp_worlds_fair_tired.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.rosi-kessel.org\/jp_worlds_fair_tired.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> Toward the end, I saw a dreadlocked Jamaican Rastafarian driving a big van who needed to get past a road block into the pedestrian area. A crew-cut Boston cop approached the van, and I was bracing myself for racial profiling and intense scrutiny. I was pleasantly surprised when the cop just waved the guy on after he indicated where he was headed. <\/p>\n<p> This is what I like so much about Jamaica Plain&#8212;it&#8217;s as progressive as any of the more lefty areas of the country (Ann Arbor, Madison, Berkeley), but quite racially and socioeconomically diverse. <\/p>\n<p> (By the way, if you&#8217;d like to see more photos of Esther, drop me a line&#8212;she has her own blog but I decided to keep it out of public scrutiny, at least until she&#8217;s old enough to decide for herself). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Esther, Rachele, and I attented the Jamaica Plain World&#8217;s Fair. This is an annual street party in our former neighborhood (just a couple miles from where we live now). Lots of street vendors, live music, arts and crafts, and people dancing in the streets. This Latin\/African diaspora band, zili roots, was great: You&#8217;ll notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}