{"id":44033,"date":"2011-11-18T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=44033"},"modified":"2011-11-18T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T14:36:00","slug":"blue-moon-its-utter-hush-remain-as-strangely-affecting-as-lifting-ones-head-to-the-night-sky-and-seeing-ufos-a-confluence-of-imagination-and-technology-at-once-transcendent-powerful-and-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=44033","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blue Moon&#8221;:  &#8220;Its utter hush remains as strangely affecting as lifting one&#8217;s head to the night sky and seeing UFOs: a confluence of imagination and technology at once transcendent, powerful, and elusive.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLfTjTLnVIo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Pike&#8217;s short piece on Elvis Presley&#8217;s very weird and very haunting &#8220;Blue Moon&#8221; is definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/pkcantexplain.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/65-elvis-presley-blue-moon-1954.html\">worth reading<\/a>.  He nails it.  <\/p>\n<p>Dave Marsh wrote about Presley&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Moon&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Blue Moon&#8221; is the most frightening performance of Elvis&#8217; early, high tenor style, an absolutely eerie masterpiece: it is more exciting and artistically worthwhile than the worst of the releases at Sun &#8211; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care if the Sun Don&#8217;t Shine&#8221; &#8211; and it&#8217;s at least as polished as the relatively anonymous country tune &#8220;I Forgot to Remember to Forget&#8221;.   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Pike&#8217;s short piece on Elvis Presley&#8217;s very weird and very haunting &#8220;Blue Moon&#8221; is definitely worth reading. He nails it. Dave Marsh wrote about Presley&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Moon&#8221;: &#8220;Blue Moon&#8221; is the most frightening performance of Elvis&#8217; early, high tenor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=44033\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[2095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44035,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44033\/revisions\/44035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}