{"id":688,"date":"2006-10-07T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T01:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2006-10-07T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T01:30:21","slug":"688","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/688\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lucinda Williams&#8217; Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/100706b.jpg','','width=1200,height=516')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/100706b.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=925 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Santa Monica Pier &#8211; 6:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite songs is by Lucinda Williams and it&#8217;s called Ventura. She&#8217;s captured a moment in lyrics of driving up the coast from L.A. that I think is brilliant. Now anytime the sun splashes down into the water and does that little bend I think of that wistful song. Love it.<\/p>\n<p><i>Take the long way home, so I can ride around. Put Neil Young on and turn up the sound.<br \/>\nDrive up the coastline, maybe to Ventura. Watch the waves make signs out on the water.<br \/>\nI wanna watch the ocean bend the edges of the sun. Then I wanna get swallowed up in an ocean of love.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The weather right now is beautiful and the remnants of one the largest California brush fires in history is still reddening the sky. A month long blaze, 162,702 acres, 250 sq miles, and 73 million dollars later it&#8217;s contained. Bloody hell. All because someone set their trash on fire. Smokey the Bear has got to be pissed.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/100706a.jpg','','width=1200,height=801')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/100706a_th.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=158 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/100706c.jpg','','width=1200,height=801')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/100706c_th.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=158 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/100706d.jpg','','width=1200,height=801')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/100706d_th.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=158 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/100706e.jpg','','width=1200,height=801')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/100706e_th.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=158 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Monica Pier &#8211; 6:30pm One of my favorite songs is by Lucinda Williams and it&#8217;s called Ventura. She&#8217;s captured a moment in lyrics of driving up the coast from L.A. that I think is brilliant. Now anytime the sun splashes down into the water and does that little bend I think of that wistful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1MOCs-688","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}