{"id":422,"date":"2005-12-09T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/?p=422"},"modified":"2006-03-25T16:13:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T15:13:55","slug":"photos-of-barbary-pirates-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/photos-of-barbary-pirates-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos Of Barbary Pirates #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from DE and S MacG&#8217;s week in Tangier, early December 2005. I&#8217;ll upload one or two a day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/wp-content\/barbary101.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, Mr O&#8217;Boyle, landlord of The Boogaloo and general saint to fragile outsiders, joins myself and Mr MacG on the terrace of the Hotel Continental. He stayed for the weekend. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/wp-content\/barbary102.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s  Mr MacGowan in his hotel room, re-reading Finnegan&#8217;s Wake. Deliciously, he was allocated Room 101 at the excellent ghost-ridden Hotel Continental in the Medina. Note that his bedfellow is not a person, but a pile of books. I get annoyed when some people compare Mr MacG to Ozzy Osbourne or the late George Best, as if all legendary over-indulgers are alike. I doubt those other two notably dissipated names are as literary-inclined as Mr MacG, whose collected lyrics were published by Faber &#038; Faber. His travel bag included works by Joyce, Plato, Burroughs, Kerouac, Dorothy Parker, and the entire James Ellroy LA Confidential trilogy. There is decadence, and then there is Decadence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from DE and S MacG&#8217;s week in Tangier, early December 2005. I&#8217;ll upload one or two a day. Here, Mr O&#8217;Boyle, landlord of The Boogaloo and general saint to fragile outsiders, joins myself and Mr MacG on the terrace of the Hotel Continental. He stayed for the weekend. Here&#8217;s Mr MacGowan in his hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}