{"id":1448,"date":"2012-02-12T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2012-02-19T13:03:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T13:03:12","slug":"what-ive-not-been-blogging-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/what-ive-not-been-blogging-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve Not Been Blogging About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/51pPcE-4KtL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1450\" title=\"51pPcE-4KtL._SL500_AA300_\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/51pPcE-4KtL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/51pPcE-4KtL._SL500_AA300_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/51pPcE-4KtL._SL500_AA300_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not had time to blog much recently: lots of marking combined with working on a very complex first draft. And, let&#8217;s face it, blogs are over and have been for years. If you want to find out what I&#8217;m reading or thinking, follow me on Twitter (there&#8217;s a box on the left, which always shows my latest tweets and retweets). Don&#8217;t friend me on facebook, where I rarely post (and please don&#8217;t <em>like<\/em> me on facebook, I have nothing to do with the automatically generated David Belbin page on there). If I had got round to blogging this month, here&#8217;s what I would have written about.<\/p>\n<p>The terrific Jackie Leven complilation compiled by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldunoyer.com\/\">Paul Du Noyer<\/a>, who writes a lovely accompanying article in the March issue of <em>The Word<\/em>. Leonard Cohen&#8217;s wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Old-Ideas-Leonard-Cohen\/dp\/B0067LY4WG\/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1329047827&amp;sr=1-1-spell\">new album<\/a>. Archie Burnett&#8217;s excellent editorial job on Philip Larkin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Complete-Poems-Philip-Larkin\/dp\/0571240062\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1329047866&amp;sr=1-2\">Collected Poems<\/a>. Or the time I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/mikeatkinson.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/19\/whitney-houston-%E2%80%93-nottingham-trent-fm-arena-thursday-april-14\/\">Whitney Houston<\/a>, a gig reviewed by Mike Atkinson in the link. Here&#8217;s the first thing I ever heard by Whitney, aged seventeen, performing a Hugh Hopper song originally recorded by one of my musical heroes, Robert Wyatt, long before the fame touched and tainted her. R.I.P.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/07-Memories-feat.-Whitney-Houston-Archie-Shepp.mp3\">Material &#8211; Memories (featuring Whitney Houston, Archie Shepp)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not had time to blog much recently: lots of marking combined with working on a very complex first draft. And, let&#8217;s face it, blogs are over and have been for years. If you want to find out what I&#8217;m reading or thinking, follow me on Twitter (there&#8217;s a box on the left, which always shows my latest tweets and retweets). Don&#8217;t friend me on facebook, where I rarely post (and please don&#8217;t like me on facebook, I have nothing to do with the automatically generated David Belbin page on there). If I had got round to blogging this month, here&#8217;s what I would have written about. The terrific Jackie Leven complilation compiled by Paul Du Noyer, who writes a lovely accompanying article in the March&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}