{"id":92,"date":"2006-03-07T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T01:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-05-03T17:08:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T17:08:04","slug":"sad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"sad day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"float\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/plonepix\/chinastone1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height =\"220\" alt =\"chinese stone\"  \/> <\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 300px; \" ><small>Black Stone<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class =\"spacer\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<p>I arrived back in New York to learn that my favourite poet, Ivor Cutler, is dead. I will always remember his multi-episodic <a href=\"http:\/\/niri.ncsa.uiuc.edu\/for\/ivor\/Glasgow%20dreamer%20Ep%2010.mp3\" title=\"link to mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Glasgow Dreamer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/niri.ncsa.uiuc.edu\/for\/ivor\/Eggmeat79.ram\" title=\"real audio\" target=\"_blank\">Egg Meat <\/a>&#8211; heart breakingly bleak, yet completely absurd poems that have etched themselves into my neural chassis. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/obituaries\/story\/0,,1725211,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a> has published a beautiful obituary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/49799\" target=\"_blank\">Metafilter<\/a> has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivorcutler.org\/sessions.html\" target=\"_blank\">useful link to some of his recorded material.<\/a> I moped arount the Met today, taking in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/special\/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B6E31DECE-D293-4EB0-BBB8-3A78F4EA2EC1%7D&amp;HomePageLink=special_c1b\" target=\"_blank\">Rauschenberg<\/a> exhibition but was somehow more drawn to the somber beauty of these ancient Chinese stones. Cutler taught himself Chinese and was in the habit of frequenting London&#8217;s Chinatown. I think he might have liked these stones.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class =\"spacer\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"float\" >\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/plonepix\/chinastone2.jpg\"  width =\"250\" height =\"350\"  alt =\"chinese stone 2\"  \/> <\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 250px; \" ><small>Limestone<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class =\"spacer\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stone &nbsp; I arrived back in New York to learn that my favourite poet, Ivor Cutler, is dead. I will always remember his multi-episodic Glasgow Dreamer and Egg Meat &#8211; heart breakingly bleak, yet completely absurd poems that have etched themselves into my neural chassis. The Guardian has published a beautiful obituary. Metafilter has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}