{"id":3825,"date":"2008-12-31T01:09:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T01:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/31\/celestial-trifecta\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T03:26:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T03:26:39","slug":"celestial-trifecta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/31\/celestial-trifecta\/","title":{"rendered":"Celestial trifecta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2008\/12\/photogalleries\/top-ten-space-photos\/photo10.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trifecta.jpg\" alt=\"trifecta.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was going to post something about jazz trumpeter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/4031471\/Freddie-Hubbard.html\" target=\"_blank\">Freddie Hubbard<\/a> who died this week (yes, another one). But enough people have been doing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/freddie-hubbard-virtuoso-jazz-trumpeter-who-played-with-john-coltrane-art-blakey-and-herbie-hancock-during-a-50year-career-1218141.html\" target=\"_blank\">elsewhere<\/a> and I wrote about the album of his that I know best, <em>Sing Me a Song of Songmy<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/22\/the-avant-garde-project\/\">back in April<\/a>. Better, then, to leave a gloomy year with a smile, even if it&#8217;s only a piece of cosmic anthropomorphism. The rare trifecta of Venus, Jupiter, and the moon earlier this month was one of National Geographic&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2008\/12\/photogalleries\/top-ten-space-photos\/photo10.html\" target=\"_blank\">most viewed space photos of 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post something about jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard who died this week (yes, another one). But enough people have been doing that elsewhere and I wrote about the album of his that I know best, Sing Me a Song of Songmy, back in April. Better, then, to leave a gloomy year with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/31\/celestial-trifecta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Celestial trifecta&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12,13],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-photography","category-science","tag-obituaries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-ZH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}