{"id":10934,"date":"2017-10-27T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10934"},"modified":"2017-10-27T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:02:07","slug":"save-slums-read-alan-moores-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2017\/10\/save-slums-read-alan-moores-jerusalem.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Save Our Slums&#8221;: I read Alan Moore&#8217;s JERUSALEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>for <em>Modern Age<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Alan Moore lives in the past<\/strong>, and who can blame him? The rent is cheaper there. <em>Jerusalem<\/em> is not the first novel from Moore, though the Hugo-winning author is better known for writing bleak and gory comic books: the antisuperhero masterpiece <em>Watchmen<\/em>, the dystopian <em>V for Vendetta<\/em>, the Jack the Ripper tale <em>From Hell<\/em>. Moore frequently delves into the weird. His <em>Swamp Thing<\/em> series explores that age-old tale of \u201csentient plant meets girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in <em>Jerusalem<\/em> he has found all the weirdness and wildness anyone could want in his own backyard\u2014quite literally, as the new novel uses real people and folklore from his hometown of Northampton. Moore reveals this economically abject northern English town, and especially its poorest neighborhood, to be the spiritual heart of the country and the world. \u201cEvery clearance area is the eternal golden city\u201d is his creed. <em>Jerusalem<\/em> is the most powerful and poignant novel I\u2019ve ever read about love of one\u2019s hometown. Anybody who\u2019s ever loved a scorned and broken place will find vindication and comradeship in Moore\u2019s vision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/home.isi.org\/save-our-slums\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for Modern Age: Alan Moore lives in the past, and who can blame him? The rent is cheaper there. Jerusalem is not the first novel from Moore, though the Hugo-winning author is better known for writing bleak and gory comic books: the antisuperhero masterpiece Watchmen, the dystopian V for Vendetta, the Jack the Ripper tale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1305,290,25,78,79,77],"class_list":["post-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-alan-moore","tag-all-of-life-is-a-choice-of-genre","tag-england-your-england","tag-home-is-anywhere-you-hang-your-head","tag-moral-memories-of-the-past","tag-prepare-for-life-in-capitalist-america-play-class-struggle-the-game"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Save Our Slums&quot;: I read Alan Moore&#039;s JERUSALEM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"for Modern Age: Alan Moore lives in the past, and who can blame him? 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