{"id":3288,"date":"2022-07-07T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:41:12","slug":"nita-ketner-on-beautiful-hazy-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3288","title":{"rendered":"Nita Ketner on lush hazy nights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NK:<\/strong> I\u2019ve never been to Havana, but I always imagine that it would look the way <em>[Frenchmen] <\/em>looked in the \u201890s. It was just very romantic, decadent\u2026&nbsp; It would be at home in Havana. Or it would be at home in Rio. I mean, Ade is from Brazil, you know, so I think he really brought a slice of the rainforest and a slice of urban Latino life into Frenchmen Street. Because there\u2019s no doubt that Cafe Brasil was the anchor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026You could go down to Frenchmen and run into people, you could dance, you could do a little coke, smoke a little weed, get drunk, meet somebody. Everything you possibly want, with all the coolest people you ever met in your life. I just recall being down there and some nights it was just a beyond-beautiful haze. Like, you remember the vibes more than you remember the details type situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>[Stay tuned for the long-form interview!]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NK: I\u2019ve never been to Havana, but I always imagine that it would look the way [Frenchmen] looked in the \u201890s. It was just very romantic, decadent\u2026&nbsp; It would be at home in Havana. Or it would be at home in Rio. I mean, Ade is from Brazil, you know, so I think he really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-interviews","category-interviews","category-quick-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}