{"id":1269,"date":"2008-03-08T21:22:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2008-03-08T21:22:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T05:22:23","slug":"compatible_quotes_38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/03\/compatible_quotes_38\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes And Two Videos: Sun Ra"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>And then when I went to Chicago, that&#8217;s when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets. &#8212; Sonny Blount (Sun Ra) <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;even if this story is revisionist autobiography &#8230; Sonny was pulling together several strains of his life. He was both prophesying his future and explaining his past with a single act of personal mythology.&#8211; John F. Szwed, <em>Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra<\/em> (Pantheon, 1997)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sun Ra: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mSNvdLpLx-0\">Space Is The Place<\/a><\/em> (1974)<\/p>\n<p>Sun Ra Arkestra: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sfbk4QAjgXo&amp;feature=related\">Face The Music<\/a><\/em> (1990)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then when I went to Chicago, that&#8217;s when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets. &#8212; Sonny Blount (Sun Ra) &#8230;even if this story is revisionist autobiography &#8230; Sonny was pulling together several strains of his life. He was both prophesying his future and explaining his past with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}