{"id":413,"date":"2014-09-26T13:05:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/?p=413"},"modified":"2014-09-26T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T11:18:00","slug":"shakespeare-and-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/shakespeare-and-company","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare and Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/shakespeare-and-company\/attachment\/1665\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-418\" alt=\"1665\" src=\"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1665-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/shakespeare-and-company\/attachment\/1661\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-414\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1661\" src=\"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1661-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My de rigueur post-it for bibliophiles visiting the City of Light \u2013 Don&#8217;t miss t<\/span>he Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, on the left bank\u00a0in front of<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> the Notre Dame cathedral.<\/span>\u00a0It was a popular hangout for writers Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein during the twenties and a magnet for\u00a0 bohemian personalities such as William Burroughs, Ana\u00efs Nin and Henry Miller. So take a break from the <em>bouquinistes<\/em> along the Seine and head through its sacred portals&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The building oozes character. Original timber beams, overflowing bookshelves and meandering corridors leading into cosy, specialised book nooks. Upstairs, the vintage tomes aren\u2019t for sale, but ensconce yourself in a corner and peruse the selection of classic titles while someone plays impromptu riffs on the piano. A delicious ambience indeed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/shakespeare-and-company\/inside-shakespeare-and-co-paris-bookshop1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-416\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Inside-Shakespeare-and-Co-Paris-Bookshop1\" src=\"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Inside-Shakespeare-and-Co-Paris-Bookshop1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/shakespeare-and-company\/attachment\/1663\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-415\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1663\" src=\"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1663-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/shakespeare-and-company\/shakespeare-and-co\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-417\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"shakespeare-and-co\" src=\"http:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shakespeare-and-co-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As you alight the creaky stairs to the second floor you pass a noticeboard crammed with handwritten notes. The following anonymous piece, dated July 15 \u2013 2014, grabbed my attention: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An age-long question: What to do with the life I\u2019ve been given?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Only one thing can be certain: Live in a sense that leaves you without turmoil, and love others as though they are or were yourself from a different life or timeline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you allow yourself to fall prey to the mundane pattern that is the grand mistake of mankind, you will be left with such a world full of fear that any bit of freedom causes terror in oneself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do not give in to the temptation of safety and mediocrity. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Risk all or deny everything.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My de rigueur post-it for bibliophiles visiting the City of Light \u2013 Don&#8217;t miss the Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, on the left bank\u00a0in front of the Notre Dame cathedral.\u00a0It was a popular hangout for writers Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/shakespeare-and-company\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavinford.com\/thinkspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}