{"id":48567,"date":"2023-07-29T17:56:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T00:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=48567"},"modified":"2023-07-29T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T00:56:27","slug":"the-repossessed-ghost-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=48567","title":{"rendered":"The Repossessed Ghost Readings!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week was the virtual launch of <em>The Repossessed Ghost<\/em>.  During the virtual launch, I did 3 readings.  The first two were from the book, and the third was the beginning of the follow-up short story, where Mel gets jury duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last reading isn&#8217;t online, but the first two are!  And here they are!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Author Brian C. E. Buhl reads from &quot;The Repossessed Ghost&quot; (July 2023)\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aODjJnRrG6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Author Brian C. E. Buhl reads from &quot;The Repossessed Ghost&quot; (July 2023)\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHT7b9n22nI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to say, I&#8217;m not super thrilled with how I sound in these.  I should have grabbed a glass of water before or during the reading.  Also, I tried to do the accent, but I&#8217;m not sure I pulled it off, and it sounds fake and reductive, to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But still!  The readings are out there, and you can listen to them, if you&#8217;d like!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was the virtual launch of The Repossessed Ghost. During the virtual launch, I did 3 readings. The first two were from the book, and the third was the beginning of the follow-up short story, where Mel gets jury duty. The last reading isn&#8217;t online, but the first two are! And here they are! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48568,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48567\/revisions\/48568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}