{"id":2773,"date":"2014-04-12T17:10:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T21:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2014-04-12T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T21:10:56","slug":"lv-and-geeshie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"LV and Geeshie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7PQYF4-BbrE?start=881&#038;end=1110\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nI found this via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/04\/13\/magazine\/blues.html?_r=1\">John Jeremiah Sullivan&#8217;s &#8220;Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie&#8221;<\/a> from New York Times Magazine. I&#8217;ve known the tune &#8220;Last Kind Words&#8221; for a long time, and the legends accompanying its obscurity too. Kronos Quartet certainly does it justice. You might want to hear the 1930 original too:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oAKfy2W70Qg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this via John Jeremiah Sullivan&#8217;s &#8220;Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie&#8221; from New York Times Magazine. I&#8217;ve known the tune &#8220;Last Kind Words&#8221; for a long time, and the legends accompanying its obscurity too. Kronos Quartet certainly does it justice. You might want to hear the 1930 original too:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}