{"id":31766,"date":"2024-01-08T08:06:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31766"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:06:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:06:48","slug":"keeping-his-memory-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/08\/keeping-his-memory-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping His Memory Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/avoidablecontact.substack.com\/p\/sunday-night-open-thread-the-100000\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday Night Open Thread post<\/a> (subscribers only), Jack Baruth mentions Dustbury:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was right about it, and most of my peers were wrong. But, as my old friend Charles G Hill once said, it hardly matters now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He links to his <a href=\"https:\/\/avoidablecontact.substack.com\/p\/double-weekly-roundup-goodbye-mister-hill-edition\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> eulogizing Charles Hill (available to the public).<\/p>\n<p>We bloggers, no matter what media, have to keep each others&#8217; memories alive since they&#8217;re more ephemeral than most ephemera.<\/p>\n<p>Doiing my bit, on Facebook on this day in 2011, I posted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brian J. Noggle confesses that, whenever he sees a Hyundai Equus, he wants to smash its headlights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and Charles got it, commenting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Way too literary for this crowd. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Definitely a well-read fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;ve only subscribed to four or five Substacks in my time, and Avoidable Contact is the only subscription I&#8217;ve kept up.  Make of that what you will, but you should make it into an endorsement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his Sunday Night Open Thread post (subscribers only), Jack Baruth mentions Dustbury: I was right about it, and most of my peers were wrong. But, as my old friend Charles G Hill once said, it hardly matters now. He links to his post eulogizing Charles Hill (available to the public). We bloggers, no matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31768,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31766\/revisions\/31768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}