{"id":245,"date":"2001-10-31T07:36:16","date_gmt":"2001-10-31T15:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=245"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:25:25","slug":"a-ghost-closing-his-mouth-after-a-long-summers-yawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/10\/31\/a-ghost-closing-his-mouth-after-a-long-summers-yawn\/","title":{"rendered":"A ghost closing his mouth after a long summer&#8217;s yawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3934,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jasonwebley.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260214141404\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.jasonwebley.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 23:23:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 05:22:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 21:40:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 07:16:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 10:47:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 19:10:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 19:10:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16788,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.seattleweekly.com\\\/features\\\/0143\\\/arts-longenbaugh.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051120135209\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.seattleweekly.com:80\\\/features\\\/0143\\\/arts-longenbaugh.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 14:28:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 14:28:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6172,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.seattleweekly.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303194408\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.seattleweekly.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 19:18:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 18:32:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 02:19:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 23:53:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 23:53:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  From time to time we meet certain companions.<br \/>\n  We walk with them, we carry on conversations,<br \/>\n  We sing the old songs, we play card games.<br \/>\n  It takes time to suspect that something is fishy,<br \/>\n  That the person at our side is merely an echo,<br \/>\n  Of something that came before.<\/p>\n<p>  Now as the last leaves release their grip from the tree,<br \/>\n  And the ghosts conclude their brief shore leave,<br \/>\n  We must remain on earth.<\/p>\n<p>  Our new companion is winter.<br \/>\n  And as we prepare to enter this new dialogue,<br \/>\n  We light a candle,<br \/>\n  And we hold on to our seed.<br \/>\n  In case, by some miracle,<br \/>\n  Spring should surprise us once again.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Jason Webley<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOne of the few slight bummers about this past weekend was that I missed Jason&#8217;s Halloween show. Having only seen him perform a couple times at Bumbershoot, I&#8217;m really hoping to be able to catch one of his shows sometime, but just had too much going on this weekend to be able to do it. Hopefully it won&#8217;t be too much longer before I get a chance I can take. For more information about Jason, you can check his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonwebley.com\" title=\"Jason Webley\">www.jasonwebley.com<\/a>, or read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/features\/0143\/arts-longenbaugh.shtml\" title=\"Seattle Weekly: Unholy Ghost\">&#8220;Unholy Ghost&#8221;<\/a> from the arts section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/\" title=\"Seattle Weekly\">Seattle Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the few slight bummers about this past weekend was that I missed Jason&#8217;s Halloween show. Having only seen him perform a couple times at Bumbershoot, I&#8217;m really hoping to be able to catch one of his shows sometime, but just had too much going on this weekend to be able to do it. Hopefully it won&#8217;t be too much longer before I get a chance I can take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035],"tags":[719,80,16],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-jason-webley","tag-music","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}