{"id":8425,"date":"2013-08-12T20:08:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T01:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2021-05-21T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:08:50","slug":"a-ghost-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/12\/a-ghost-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A ghost story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a hard time thinking of something to post when all of a sudden it occurred to me that one of my favorite ghost stories isn&#8217;t from a book or movie, it&#8217;s a song. Specifically the song <i>She Moved Through the Fair<\/i>. I didn&#8217;t even realize until after several listenings that the &#8220;she&#8221; of the song is dead, so when the singer dreams of her coming to him at the end, it&#8217;s really her ghost. <\/p>\n<p>The first version of the song I encountered was by Loreena McKennitt on her album <i>Elemental<\/i> and it is still my favorite rendition. Here&#8217;s You Tube video with it, embedded below:<\/p>\n<p>[edited to add: the video I originally linked to here was removed, but if you search for the song on YouTube, you&#8217;ll find several great versions.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a hard time thinking of something to post when all of a sudden it occurred to me that one of my favorite ghost stories isn&#8217;t from a book or movie, it&#8217;s a song. Specifically the song She Moved Through the Fair. I didn&#8217;t even realize until after&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/12\/a-ghost-story\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13884,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions\/13884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}