{"id":6419,"date":"2020-10-07T06:04:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T13:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:11:54","slug":"roy-marx-socialist-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/roy-marx-socialist-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Marx, Socialist Detective by Lark Jameson"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My former client emailed me her new idea for a story and it was so great I had to repeat it here. It&#8217;s about a socialist Portland detective named Roy Marx who fights crimes of class oppression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roy looks like a young Trotsky and dresses in tweed three-piece suits with patches. He drinks Russian vodka made by a peasant collective and smokes ? What did communist revolutionaries smoke?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He carries around the Communist Manifesto for consultation and inspiration. He&#8217;s is decidedly anti-tech and laughs at the idea of social media, calling it \u201cthe greatest invasion of capitalism into the private lives in the history of the world! And it was free!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He manages to conduct his communications through a phone booth near his apartment, one of the last working ones left in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lark said the first story will take place in a progressive fast food joint, there will be a murder, and Roy is brought into to solve the grisly murder of a fiery kid who was trying to unionize the joint he worked at. Someone dunked his head into the french fry grease vat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My former client emailed me her new idea for a story and it was so great I had to repeat it here. It&#8217;s about a socialist Portland detective named Roy Marx who fights crimes of class oppression. Roy looks like a young Trotsky and dresses in tweed three-piece suits with patches. He drinks Russian vodka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10259,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions\/10259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}