{"id":1603,"date":"2007-09-25T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/09\/hustlers_paradise\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:46:05","slug":"hustlers_paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/09\/hustlers_paradise.html","title":{"rendered":"Hustlers&#8217; Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parisreview.com\/media\/4987_ALGREN.pdf\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"Nelson Algren mug shot, Jan. 13, 1967 [Chicago Police Department]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/AlgrenMugshotsepia240.jpg\" width=239 align=right border=0 \/><\/a>Dunno know why it took me so long to catch up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonalgren.org\/video\/nalgren01.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Nelson Algren&#8217;s Last Night!&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> Made by Warren Leming and Carmine Cervi, it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonalgren.org\/video\/nalgren01.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>beautiful video<\/strong><\/font><\/a> that runs for just over 5 minutes but with a long-lasting eloquence that matches its subject&#8217;s words.<br \/>\nSuch as these:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I submit that literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by a conscience in touch with humanity.<br \/>\nNow we all know.<br \/>\n&#8230; The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.<br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Nelson Algren, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago:_City_on_the_Make\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Chicago: City on the Make<\/strong><\/font><\/a><br \/>(from the introduction to the 1961 edition dedicated to Joan Baez)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcantwait.net\/images\/ads\/wcw_metro_9_25_draft.pdf\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"CLICK TO READ: 'That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn or be forced to accept.'\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/RealNuclearThreat%20240.jpg\" width=239\" align=right border=0 \/><\/A>Meanwhile, per World Can&#8217;t Wait:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today a belligerent President Bush comes to the United Nations to impress upon the world that the U.S. is in the Middle East to stay, that the war on terror will be endless, and to threaten a murderous war on Iran.<br \/>\n&#8220;That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn or be forced to accept.&#8221; If you don&#8217;t show your resistance, it doesn&#8217;t count.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the man said, <i>Now we all know.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nelson Algren&#8217;s Last Night!&#8221; Made by Warren Leming and Carmine Cervi, it&#8217;s a Chicago: City on the Make(from the introduction to the 1961 edition dedicated to Joan Baez) Meanwhile, per World Can&#8217;t Wait: Today a belligerent President Bush comes to the United Nations to impress upon the world that the U.S. is in the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-pR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}