{"id":962,"date":"2012-08-06T02:08:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T00:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2012-08-06T02:08:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T00:08:39","slug":"goodbye-jason-noble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Jason Noble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RaQtK74sF5Q?fs=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I knew Jason Noble was sick about two years ago, and I knew it was a nasty cancer, and I knew he&#8217;d beaten it for the moment. I didn&#8217;t know he was sick again so I was surprised this morning when a fellow refugee from Louisville told me that\u00a0<a title=\"Jason Noble's Caring Bridge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caringbridge.org\/visit\/jasonnoble\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;d passed<\/a>. Jason, along with his musical cohorts at the Rocket House and at ear X-tacy made being a teen in a city where open-mindedness did not come easily a lot more palatable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare in the narcissistic, instant gratification-fueled world of 21st-century communications that a person with a public persona passes and is genuinely mourned. To a geeky, bored, often angry kid seeking any kind of interaction beyond teachers and churches, Jason was a kind, gentle and open soul. His art &#8212; from post-rock epics to simple sketches &#8212; made perfect sense to those who grew up in the same fishbowl. He clarified the distortions and gave voice to the frustrations.<\/p>\n<p>RIP, Jason Noble. As a writer greater than this scribbler once said, his spirit shines through him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew Jason Noble was sick about two years ago, and I knew it was a nasty cancer, and I knew he&#8217;d beaten it for the moment. I didn&#8217;t know he was sick again so I was surprised this morning when a fellow refugee from Louisville told me that\u00a0he&#8217;d passed. Jason, along with his musical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=962\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodbye, Jason Noble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,40,49],"tags":[107,208,236,261,314,315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}