{"id":27481,"date":"2013-09-22T19:24:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=27481"},"modified":"2013-09-22T19:24:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T19:24:02","slug":"sunday-surprise-5-once-in-a-blues-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=27481","title":{"rendered":"Sunday surprise 5: once in a blues moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; time for some more surprises, this time in stone and jazz &#8212; plus an afterimage of WWI ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>First, a master-class in the craft of the blues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2gMxdkfgE3M?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2gMxdkfgE3M?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Second, the moon: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sNUNB6CMnE8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And third, because of the violence in Kenya, Pakistan, Syria &#8230; get me a globe and I&#8217;ll spin it&#8230; and because I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=22731\">talked with you before of my friend <strong>Heathcote Williams<\/strong><\/a> and he mentioned this to his followers today, here are his meditations on World War I, prepared for its centenary next bloody year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neither he nor my father ever explained the war to me.  It was just something that had happened to them. Something irrational that hung over them. A grisly cloud of spectral blood.  A tumor that fogged the psyche.  Something in their history that had spoiled both their lives.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1rNvf551eB4?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1rNvf551eB4?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And them&#8217;s the blues for this week: go well, stay well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; time for some more surprises, this time in stone and jazz &#8212; plus an afterimage of WWI ] . First, a master-class in the craft of the blues: Second, the moon: And third, because of the violence in Kenya, Pakistan, Syria &#8230; get me a globe and I&#8217;ll spin it&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,652,480,757,778,419,32,1,18,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-literature","category-music","category-musings","category-photography","category-romney","category-science","category-uncategorized","category-war","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27481"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27929,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481\/revisions\/27929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}