{"id":244,"date":"2009-10-25T16:57:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T16:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirkcenter.wordpress.com\/?page_id=244"},"modified":"2009-10-25T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T16:57:57","slug":"a-long-long-trail-a-winding-and-commentary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewardrobe.org\/?page_id=244","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There&#8217;s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding&#8221; and commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding&#8221; is perhaps Russell&#8217;s most outstanding ghostly tale.   It was for that story the he was presented with a Hugo Award.  In August of 1976, before the story was published, Russell gave related a few other tales of dis-ease and some of the genesis of this ghostly narrative and read it in its entirety at The ISI (The Intercollegiate Studies Institute) Midwestern Summer School at Hillsdale College.<\/p>\n<p>This story is hosted at the ISI web site, as are others of Russell&#8217;s lectures and conversations and you can listen to it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmisi.org\/mp3\/lectures\/kirk1976.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The story is the ultimate tale in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ancestral-Shadows-Anthology-Ghostly-Tales\/dp\/080283938X\">Ancestral Shadows<\/a>, a new anthology of Russell&#8217;s stories, with introduction by Vigen Guroian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding&#8221; is perhaps Russell&#8217;s most outstanding ghostly tale. It was for that story the he was presented with a Hugo Award. In August of 1976, before the story was published, Russell gave related a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewardrobe.org\/?page_id=244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":141,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PgqRnd-3W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewardrobe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewardrobe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewardrobe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewardrobe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewardrobe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewardrobe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewardrobe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewardrobe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}