{"id":31,"date":"2003-05-15T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2003-05-15T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/05\/farewell_to_stromness\/"},"modified":"2003-05-15T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2003-05-15T11:16:54","slug":"farewell_to_stromness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/05\/farewell_to_stromness\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Stromness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice <a href=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/archives\/Farewell_To_Stromness.mp3\">song to play<\/a> at a wedding or funeral.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Farewell to Stromness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxopus.com\/works\/farewell.htm\">Farewell to Stromness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stromness22.jpg\" src=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/archives\/stromness22.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Composer&#8217;s Note<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Yellow Cake Revue takes it name from the popular term for refined uranium ore, and concerns the threat of the proposed uranium mining to the economy and ecology of the Orkney Islands which islanders are determined to fight, down to the last person.<\/p>\n<p>Stromness, the second largest town in Orkney (pop. 1500), would be two miles from the uranium mine&#8217;s core, and the centre most threatened by pollution. Yesnaby is the nearby clifftop beauty spot under whose soil the uranium is known to lie.  &#8212; Max Davies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice song to play at a wedding or funeral. Farewell to Stromness Composer&#8217;s Note The Yellow Cake Revue takes it name from the popular term for refined uranium ore, and concerns the threat of the proposed uranium mining to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/05\/farewell_to_stromness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}