{"id":220,"date":"2008-01-08T23:02:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T05:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2008-01-08T23:02:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T05:02:48","slug":"coming-down-off-a-techno-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Coming Down off a Techno High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>30\u00a0 96%\u00a0 30%\u00a0 omph\u00a0WSW bar 29.85 rises\u00a0windchill30\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon<\/p>\n<p>Watched an HD movie tonight:\u00a0 <u>An American Haunting<\/u>. Sissy Spacek, Donald Sutherland and James D&#8217;Arcy provided the core of a good ensemble cast.\u00a0 This movie tells\u00a0of the Bell Witch, an early 19th century century haunting in Adams, Tennessee. There is a cottage industry of folks who believe, including debunkers of other believers.\u00a0 A bit\u00a0like a snake biting its own tale.\u00a0 The book <u>An American Haunting: The Bell Witch <\/u>recounts the supposedly true events which ended in 1821 with the death of John Bell.\u00a0 The movie suggests incest, but fails, at least to my satisfaction, to link it to the strange occurrences at the Bell House.\u00a0 Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecobrasnose.com\/xxghost\/bell.html\">a website <\/a>with further information.<\/p>\n<p>Feel like I&#8217;m coming down off a techno high, a sort of cyber electric dream occasioned by optical cables, coaxial cables, HDMI cables, speaker wire, subwoofers and high definition televison.\u00a0 Alice could tumble through an HDMI cable into a virtual wonderland, I have.\u00a0 This is an enchantment of sorts,\u00a0and as such it must be encountered with awareness, not naivete.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, how about that Hilary, huh?\u00a0 Coulda fooled me.\u00a0 Looked like Obama was a shoe-in in New Hampshire.\u00a0 Just what this means for the race is anybodies guess right now.\u00a0 I love it.\u00a0 Real candidates in a real horse race.\u00a0 Jockeying for position, fighting over the issues and over how to organize campaigns for types of candidates who&#8217;ve never run before in this serious a manner.\u00a0 This is (to use a much abused phrase) a historic moment for American democracy.\u00a0 It can be a time when we win back the world&#8217;s admiration if we allow ourselves to enter the process without cynicism.\u00a0 Hard, I admit, but possible and desirable.\u00a0 Imagine a campaign about real politics and not weirdo ideologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30\u00a0 96%\u00a0 30%\u00a0 omph\u00a0WSW bar 29.85 rises\u00a0windchill30\u00a0 Winter \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon Watched an HD movie tonight:\u00a0 An American Haunting. Sissy Spacek, Donald Sutherland and James D&#8217;Arcy provided the core of a good ensemble cast.\u00a0 This movie tells\u00a0of the Bell Witch, an early 19th century century haunting in Adams, Tennessee. There is a cottage industry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coming Down off a Techno High<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,23,100],"tags":[226,191,4353,73],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-geekworld","category-politics","tag-hilary","tag-movies","tag-politics","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}