{"id":16319,"date":"2017-08-24T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2017-08-24T12:11:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:11:16","slug":"random-notes-august-24-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=16319","title":{"rendered":"Random notes: August 24, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also among the dead: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/22\/nyregion\/village-voice-to-end-print-publication.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=nyregion&#038;region=stream&#038;module=stream_unit&#038;version=latest&#038;contentPlacement=19&#038;pgtype=sectionfront\" target=\"_blank\">the print edition of the <strong>Village Voice<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/forecast-harvey-crash-ashore-overnight-friday-night-hurricane\/s1KpDdDRz1gQ50D45daw2K\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>WE&#8217;RE ALL GOING TO DIE!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just-completed GFS model (12Z) shows nothing less than a flooding catastrophe for Texas. 24-48&quot; of rain in 3 or 4 days.<br \/>Please pay attention <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VWmOe1DtG7\">pic.twitter.com\/VWmOe1DtG7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricHolthaus\/status\/900396554325860352\">August 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Keeping your head up, your eyes open, and not driving into high water is probably a good idea. <strong>But.<\/strong> I remember the last time a hurricane came ashore near Houston, and was threatening Austin. I was still attending St. Ed&#8217;s at the time, and the university was sending out regular updates. There was tremendous hysteria. Everyone was hunkering down waiting for the storm.<\/p>\n<p>In my part of town, the skies turned dark&#8230;and we got maybe three drops of rain, total. The hurricane was a giant bust.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1S2wjSvX2D8?start=22\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I suggest being careful. But I&#8217;m not going to put any faith in apocalyptic predictions until the water starts coming over the top of the dam.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to Alice Goodman? She wrote the librettos to John Adams&#8217;s \u201cNixon in China\u201d and \u201cDeath of Klinghoffer\u201d&#8230;and then she just sort of vanished.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, she&#8217;s an ordained Anglican priest living in England.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/22\/arts\/music\/nixon-china-john-adams-alice-goodman-peter-sellars.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI never drifted away from music,\u201d she said in a recent phone interview. \u201cI couldn\u2019t get work commissioned, so I did what members of my family do when that kind of thing happened: I started another degree. By 1997, I was being offered commissions and collaborations again, but none of them were particularly interesting to me, and my ideas didn\u2019t interest my colleagues.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also among the dead: the print edition of the Village Voice. In other news: WE&#8217;RE ALL GOING TO DIE! Just-completed GFS model (12Z) shows nothing less than a flooding catastrophe for Texas. 24-48&quot; of rain in 3 or 4 days.Please pay attention pic.twitter.com\/VWmOe1DtG7 &mdash; Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) August 23, 2017 Keeping your head up, your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,22,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hysteria","category-media","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16319"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16329,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions\/16329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}