{"id":24085,"date":"2024-08-06T22:53:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=24085"},"modified":"2024-08-06T23:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:32:12","slug":"germany-or-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=24085","title":{"rendered":"Germany or Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On Nov. 9, the day after Donald J. Trump shocked the world, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Larry Coryell<\/span> was sitting in his Orlando home, cussing out the president-elect, fuming about the outcome of the election and plotting an exit strategy for himself and his wife, Tracey. \u201cWe\u2019re going to move to Europe,\u201d he declared. \u201cNow that Trump is in \u2026 we\u2019re going to make good on our promise to each other to move to either Germany or Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coryell was clearly agitated as the reality of a Trump presidency was sinking in. \u201cThis is an unacceptable situation,\u201d he snarled into his phone. \u201cWe cannot let all the work we\u2019ve done as jazz musicians to help relationships between people \u2026 we can\u2019t let all that go to hell. And that\u2019s what this election is going to do. It\u2019ll take us back to the Dark Ages and people will think that it\u2019s OK to be prejudiced again. Well, I don\u2019t accept it. We have to stand up. \u2026 [Trump is] an impostor, a huckster, and he\u2019s got to go. And because I\u2019m a Buddhist I\u2019m going to chant about it and try to turn poison into medicine, and just get deeper and deeper into my music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Bill Milkowski, (2017, February). Remembering Larry Coryell. <em>Downbeat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/from-the-river-to-the-sea.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"75%\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24087\" style=\"border: 0;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/from-the-river-to-the-sea.webp 887w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/from-the-river-to-the-sea-300x109.webp 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/from-the-river-to-the-sea-150x54.webp 150w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/from-the-river-to-the-sea-768x278.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 9, the day after Donald J. Trump shocked the world, Larry Coryell was sitting in his Orlando home, cussing out the president-elect, fuming about the outcome of the election and plotting an exit strategy for himself and his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=24085\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}