{"id":6656,"date":"2015-11-18T20:47:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2015-11-18T20:47:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:47:54","slug":"time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6656","title":{"rendered":"Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2010\/09\/sviibjimzellmer92010.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Certain voices take up residence in my brain.   Lykke Li is one.  Tracey Thorn another.  And, Karla Bonoff.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to KCRW&#8217;s stream recently,  a familiar voice wafted through my office.   Again, and again.   That voice.  Who?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, KCRW&#8217;s playlist, that&#8217;ll do it.  School of Seven Bells. 2010 The Majestic Theater.  The photo above.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Open your eyes&#8230;&#8221; [1]  <\/p>\n<p>A beautiful voice.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered what had become of them.   Their tale was more than I expected. Benjamin Curtis [2], holding a beer in the photo, passed away in late 2013, age 35.<\/p>\n<p>Could it really have been five years?    <\/p>\n<p>I found this voice to be a poignant reminder of other friends suffering with health issues.  Our &#8220;time of grace&#8221; on earth passes quickly.   <\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/noisey.vice.com\/blog\/school-of-seven-bells-interview-2015\">Open Your Eyes Track<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Curtis_%28musician%29\">Wikipedia on Benjamin Curtis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain voices take up residence in my brain. Lykke Li is one. Tracey Thorn another. And, Karla Bonoff. Listening to KCRW&#8217;s stream recently, a familiar voice wafted through my office. Again, and again. That voice. Who? Ah, KCRW&#8217;s playlist, that&#8217;ll do it. School of Seven Bells. 2010 The Majestic Theater. The photo above. &#8220;Open your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6657,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions\/6657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}