{"id":9524,"date":"2023-06-21T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9524"},"modified":"2023-06-21T21:26:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:26:38","slug":"sunny-summer-solstice-jonis-hissing-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9524","title":{"rendered":"SUNNY SUMMER SOLSTICE: Joni\u2019s Hissing Lawns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9406.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9406.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9406-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9406-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9406-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A terrific cover for a brilliant album.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"160\" height=\"26\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/stars_11_six.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9522\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year Apparently that means nearly 17 hours of daylight today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also means loads of folk gathering at Stonehenge, and, traditionally, it\u2019s a day, or evening, celebrated with bonfires. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also seems like good day to listen to Joni Mitchell\u2019s fabulous 1975 album, <em>The Hissing of Summer Lawns<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9405-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9405-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9405-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9405-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9405-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_9405.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joni in a swimming pool, by Norman Seeff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist, musician, composer, poet, philosopher. Her lyrics for The Jungle Line are brilliant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"> <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty amazing, eh!? Encompassing so much, from art to music, love to war, the country vs. the city, old and new, and so much more. Musically it\u2019s an interesting experiment, with that weird synth and her voice over Burundi drummers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not my favourite track on the album. But it\u2019s still a corker. And the words are almost encyclopaedic, yet still resolutely poetic, in their range and scope. They kind of sun up the album and where Joni\u2019s at, and even the art, culture and civilisation of her times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incredible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year Apparently that means nearly 17 hours of daylight today. It also means loads of folk gathering at Stonehenge, and, traditionally, it\u2019s a day, or evening, celebrated with bonfires. It also seems like good day to listen to Joni Mitchell\u2019s fabulous 1975 album, The Hissing of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SUNNY SUMMER SOLSTICE: Joni\u2019s Hissing Lawns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2tC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9528,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions\/9528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}