{"id":3056,"date":"2011-08-25T18:29:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T22:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2011-08-25T18:29:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T22:29:15","slug":"portsmouth-virginia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/portsmouth-virginia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth, Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/2011\/soulsparadise.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3058\" title=\"soulsparadise\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/soulsparadise1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/soulsparadise1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/soulsparadise1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHigh Street, Portsmouth, Virginia &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>My mother, sister, and I drove around the Hampton Roads area revisiting places where we once lived, or places that held some significance. Near the picture above, I remember&#8211;at age 4&#8211;going to a bowling alley above an A&amp;P supermarket. My mother was a competitive duckpin bowler in those days. I remember the pins were set by hand&#8211;by young black boys. It was a segregated city then, and it is still. The whites have moved out except for the beautifully preserved Old Town, and much of the city looks like a smaller version of Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/barefootfriendly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3061\" title=\"barefootfriendly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/barefootfriendly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"47\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Street, Portsmouth, Virginia &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose My mother, sister, and I drove around the Hampton Roads area revisiting places where we once lived, or places that held some significance. Near the picture above, I remember&#8211;at age 4&#8211;going to a bowling alley above an A&amp;P supermarket. My mother was a competitive duckpin bowler in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}