{"id":119,"date":"2006-08-01T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/what-was-it-about-that-night\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:46","slug":"what-was-it-about-that-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/what-was-it-about-that-night\/","title":{"rendered":"What was it about that night?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Connection.  In an isolating age&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon on the way home from work I heard Chicago&#8217;s <em>25 or 6 to 4<\/em> on the radio, which naturally brought the associated quad\/tenors groove to mind.  Then I came home and decided on a whim to look through my Bookmarks folder of friends&#8217; blogs and journals, revisiting some places I haven&#8217;t been in weeks or months.  That was a cool experience in and of itself.  And then out of the blue, another tab pops up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adiumx.com\">Adium<\/a>, and there&#8217;s my fellow drummer and one of those very journal authors, one Joel Liberski.<\/p>\n<p>It had been far too long, but it seems Joel is doing quite well, as the Poetry editor for the UWGB literary journal <em>Sheepshead Review<\/em>, and a near-future English major graduate.  He has a way with words that I have only been able to regard in continued amazement since I first read his writings.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even believe that over 4 full years separate the present from the last time we were in class together, that it has been 5 since dashing across the practice field to beat the marching band out from behind the school in Joel&#8217;s car, 6 from a certain freshman showing up a certain junior on a rudimentary (ha ha) paradiddle lick, and 7 or 8 from a terrified middle schooler listening to an intimidating high schooler tell every one to be quiet because the audience could hear us at the Bay Port percussion night.<\/p>\n<p>It was excellent to talk with him again, and to read a bit of what he&#8217;s been up to.  Incidentally, he&#8217;s published now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwgb.edu\/sheepshead\/spring_06\/index06.html\">UW Green Bay Spring 2006 <em>Sheepshead Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, as always, sir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connection. In an isolating age&#8230; This afternoon on the way home from work I heard Chicago&#8217;s 25 or 6 to 4 on the radio, which naturally brought the associated quad\/tenors groove to mind. Then I came home and decided on a whim to look through my Bookmarks folder of friends&#8217; blogs and journals, revisiting some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}