{"id":19255,"date":"2020-03-30T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=19255"},"modified":"2020-09-15T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:47:22","slug":"launch-of-sanatorium-livestream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/launch-of-sanatorium-livestream\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Sanatorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abi Palmer says, \u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;re going to send <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanatorium <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">off into the world the same way I made it, sitting precariously in a blue inflatable bathtub. Expect wonky glamour, boundary-pushing bathtub performances, and balloons where you never expected to see them&#8230; Please come to my party! It&#8217;s an Out-of-Body book launch designed for staying home.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>About the book<\/h2>\n<p>A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an \u00a380 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an unsuitable room, slowly deflating and in constant danger of falling apart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/sanatorium\/\"><em>Sanatorium<\/em><\/a> moves through contrasting spaces \u2014 bathtub to thermal pool, land to water, day to night \u2014 interlacing memoir, poetry and meditations on the body to create a mesmerising, mercurial debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abi Palmer says, \u2018We&#8217;re going to send Sanatorium off into the world the same way I made it, sitting precariously in a blue inflatable bathtub. Expect wonky glamour, boundary-pushing bathtub performances, and balloons where you never expected to see them&#8230; Please come to my party! It&#8217;s an Out-of-Body book launch designed for staying home.\u2019 About [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19255"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19274,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255\/revisions\/19274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}