{"id":43869,"date":"2020-12-29T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=43869"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:29:09","slug":"heathcote-williams-cobalt-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/12\/heathcote-williams-cobalt-blues.html","title":{"rendered":"Heathcote Williams: &#8216;Cobalt Blues&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dfRVyGmSo5U\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12618\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/04\/hear-that-clicking-sound-listen-to-the-cobalt-blues.html\/cobalt-blues\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cobalt-blues.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,353\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;Cobalt Blues&amp;#8217; by Heathcote Williams\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cobalt-blues-300x165.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cobalt-blues.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-12618 aligncenter\" title=\"Click for 'Cobalt Blues' by Heathcote Williams, narration and montage by Alan Cox.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cobalt-blues.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cobalt-blues.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cobalt-blues-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cobalt-blues-360x200.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dfRVyGmSo5U\" data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Click to view the video<\/a><\/em> <em>(montage and narration by Alan Cox).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">\u200b\"In German folklore a 'kobold' was a deadly sprite&nbsp;\nthat inhabited mines and could live inside rock. \nHunched and ugly, it warned off human busybodies\u200b.\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I was reminded of &#8216;Cobalt Blues&#8217; this morning by Louise Erdrich&#8217;s op-ed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/28\/opinion\/minnesota-line-3-enbridge-pipeline.html\">&#8220;Not Just Another Pipeline&#8221;<\/a> about &#8220;a tar sands climate bomb&#8221; now under construction in Minnesota and racing &#8220;to lock in pipeline infrastructure&#8221; before it can be stopped. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of &#8216;Cobalt Blues&#8217; this morning by Louise Erdrich&#8217;s op-ed &#8220;Not Just Another Pipeline&#8221; about &#8220;a tar sands climate bomb&#8221; in Minnesota now under construction and racing &#8220;to lock in pipeline infrastructure&#8221; before it can be stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,4,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-media","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/COBALT-560.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-bpz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43899,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43869\/revisions\/43899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}