{"id":1960,"date":"2010-06-05T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2010-06-05T17:36:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T15:36:12","slug":"the-ark-sails-closer-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/2010\/06\/the-ark-sails-closer-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ark Sails Closer To Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Perry has finally scheduled a gig vaguely close to our home, 35&nbsp;km from here, to be precise.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summerdarkness.nl\/\">Summer Darkness<\/a> festival in Utrecht on 13th August, a date that will require some planning to meet, given that it&#8217;s in the middle of the school summer holiday.<\/p>\n\n<p>The concert will be in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domkerk.nl\/\">Domkerk<\/a>, a church that should provide a paradoxically fitting atmosphere for Perry&#8217;s existential musings.<\/p>\n\n<p>The festival organisers have taken the unusual, but very welcome step of issuing single performance tickets for his show. Usually, you&#8217;d require a day ticket or a whole festival ticket to attend, but it&#8217;s now possible to pay for and see only Brendan&#8217;s gig, which is a terrific concession to his fans. I wonder if the artist had anything to do with this arrangement. If so, it could mean that no other gigs are planned for this country, so it&#8217;s a case of seizing the opportunity now, for there may not be another.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bp_utrecht1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1960]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bp_utrecht1.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan Perry, Utrecht Domkerk, 13-08-10 ticket\" title=\"Brendan Perry, Utrecht Domkerk, 13-08-10 ticket\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bp_utrecht1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bp_utrecht1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Perry has finally scheduled a gig vaguely close to our home, 35&nbsp;km from here, to be precise. It&#8217;s at the Summer Darkness festival in Utrecht on 13th August, a date that will require some planning to meet, given that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/2010\/06\/the-ark-sails-closer-to-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","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},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}