{"id":54556,"date":"2025-04-18T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/?p=54556"},"modified":"2025-04-27T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:23:30","slug":"the-relaunch-of-the-urban-mole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/?p=54556","title":{"rendered":"The Relaunch of the Urban Mole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_3877-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_3877-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54542\" style=\"width:375px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_3877-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_3877-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_3877-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_3877-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_3877-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Copyright CC0 Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Welcome to the relaunch of the Urban Mole. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s been 5 years since the last post and a lot\u2019s changed since then. Where the old Mole was art and argument against a staid way of seeing, the new\u2019s a storybook of city life. It\u2019s a short and witty, lived-in, loose fit look at the world. Tales of people making places making people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Street sociology. Soft-core phenomenology. Pulp. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There\u2019ll be new stories every Saturday at 0900 CE(S)T \u2014 a breakfast or brunch read, or something to lounge to later. Your work week\u2019s busy enough (*). The weekend\u2019s for relaxing. That said \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ghost of the old Mole lingers. Occasionally an essay might appear, long-form and whim-driven. These are city-fable adjacent \u2014 if you\u2019re just here for the tales, tune out. (Though your comments are welcome.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the future, you\u2019ll be able to read guest posts. The city\u2019s full of voices and some have a lot to say, often in ways wildly divergent from my own. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There are more plans in the works, but those can wait. Let\u2019s overcome the inertia first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Once upon a time \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(*) Whatever your work prefix: Home-, school-, parenting-, post-work (i.e. retirement) etc.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the relaunch of the urban mole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cf"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54566,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54556\/revisions\/54566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}