{"id":17138,"date":"2020-09-13T09:10:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=17138"},"modified":"2020-09-13T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T17:25:07","slug":"the-best-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/13\/the-best-thing-ive-seen-in-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"a fragment of celestial music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aretha Franklin \/ Smokey Robinson \/ Ooh Baby Baby\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YeDt9mZMc6w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the best thing i&#8217;ve seen in a long time &#8212; smokey so sweet and smiley, aretha in soft focus, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flashback-aretha-franklin-smokey-robinson-sing-a-stunning-duet-on-soul-train-710291\/\">soul train<\/a>, 1979. from carina del valle schorske&#8217;s <em>believer<\/em> essay, <a href=\"https:\/\/believermag.com\/logger\/its-not-too-late\/\">&#8220;it&#8217;s not too late&#8221;<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Every detail in the <em>Soul Train<\/em> duet is worthy of study, but I like to run the clip back to a bit from the beginning\u2014that first harmony\u2014beauty so keen it even takes Aretha by surprise. She turns to Smokey, flirting:<\/p><p>\u201cWe should\u2019ve been a duo!\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s not too late!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the best thing i&#8217;ve seen in a long time &#8212; smokey so sweet and smiley, aretha in soft focus, on soul train, 1979. from carina del valle schorske&#8217;s believer essay, &#8220;it&#8217;s not too late&#8221;: Every detail in the Soul Train duet is worthy of study, but I like to run the clip back to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17138"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17148,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17138\/revisions\/17148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}