{"id":8041,"date":"2011-03-02T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=8041"},"modified":"2011-03-08T13:23:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T18:23:38","slug":"the-fundamental-things-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-fundamental-things-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fundamental Things Apply"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Below, click Play button to begin well, playing. During this time, volume control will appear at left — a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 4:22 long.]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

[audio:lovewalkedin_errollgarner.mp3|titles=’Love Walked In’|artists=Erroll Garner]<\/div>\n

\"\"On March 1, 1991 — twenty years ago yesterday — I got an email from a stranger who’d downloaded and read an unpublished story of mine.<\/p>\n

The story in question, “The Last Supper,” was a slender-little-nothin’ of a horror story about a church congregation who disposed of each pastor, when they tired of him, by consuming him at a communal covered-dish meal. My new correspondent just wanted me to know (a) she had enjoyed reading it and (b) in a word, Eeeeewww…!<\/em><\/p>\n

Gross-out aside, the tone of the note was a little fangirlish. And in my reply, I — who’d written but not yet published a mystery about an email stalker — was simultaneously a little puffed-up and evasive.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, neither of us retained a copy of that first exchange. We both remember it, though — oh yes we do. And we both remember (in sometimes excruciating detail <g>) the long-term effects…<\/p>\n

Erroll Garner’s piano provides the soundtrack to this post: “Love Walked In.” Seven years after George Gershwin composed the music, Ira Gershwin added the lyrics, the first verse of which goes:<\/p>\n

Nothing seemed to matter any more,
\nDidn’t care what I was headed for.
\nTime was standing still,
\nNo one counted till
\nThere came a knocking at the door.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rest fits, too.<\/p>\n

Love you, Baby.<\/p>\n

[Comments closed for this post, obviously.]<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Below, click Play button to begin well, playing. During this time, volume control will appear at left — a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 4:22 long.] [audio:lovewalkedin_errollgarner.mp3|titles=’Love Walked In’|artists=Erroll Garner] On March 1, 1991 — twenty years ago yesterday — I got an email from a stranger who’d downloaded and read an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,38,2252,74,37,105],"tags":[1140,2241,2242,2243,2244,2245],"class_list":{"0":"post-8041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-themissus","7":"category-backwards","8":"category-midweek-music-break","9":"category-music","10":"category-onlineworld","11":"category-short-fiction","12":"tag-ee-cummings","13":"tag-the-last-supper","14":"tag-erroll-garner","15":"tag-george-gershwin","16":"tag-ira-gershwin","17":"tag-love-walked-in","18":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-25H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8042,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}