{"id":9326,"date":"2012-10-01T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/october-again-2\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T11:55:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:55:36","slug":"october-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/october-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"October Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And no better way to kick off Kerouac month than with a reading from &quot;October in Railroad Earth&quot; from <em>Lonesome Traveler<\/em>, 1960.&#0160; Steve Allen provides the wonderful piano accompaniment.&#0160; I have the Grove Press Black Cat 1970 paperback edition. Bought it on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, 12 April 1973.&#0160; I was travelling East by thumb, but mostly&#0160; I &#39;rode the dog&#39; (Greyhound bus), a mode of transport I wouldn&#39;t put up with today: two guys behind me&#0160;chain-smoked &#0160;and talked all the way from Los Angeles to Phoenix.&#0160; New Orleans proved to be memorable, including the flophouse on Carondelet I stayed in for $2.&#0160; It was there that <em>Lonesome &#0160;Traveler<\/em> joined <em>On the Road<\/em> in my rucksack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gLj1GwMvh8Y\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is a shorter (3:58) excerpt with great images.&#0160; It includes the first section and about half of the second, pp. 37-39 in the Black Cat edition.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-hjPZpaXNsw\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is the second, longer excerpt (7:10), which contains the whole of the first two sections of the piece, pp. 37-40.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And no better way to kick off Kerouac month than with a reading from &quot;October in Railroad Earth&quot; from Lonesome Traveler, 1960.&#0160; Steve Allen provides the wonderful piano accompaniment.&#0160; I have the Grove Press Black Cat 1970 paperback edition. Bought it on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, 12 April 1973.&#0160; I was travelling East by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/october-again-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;October Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bohemianism","category-kerouac-and-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}