{"id":11039,"date":"2016-03-18T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=11039"},"modified":"2016-03-18T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:21:23","slug":"atlantic-writers-visit-the-aabergs-in-chester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/03\/atlantic-writers-visit-the-aabergs-in-chester\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic writers visit the Aabergs in Chester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11040\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-11040 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweetgrass-hills.jpg\" alt=\"Hills\" width=\"336\" height=\"597\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Philip Aaberg<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Sweetgrass Hills.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Writing on The Altantic magazine&#8217;s website, Deborah Fallows pays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2016\/03\/listening-to-montana\/473979\/\">a fine tribute to composer-pianist Philip Aaberg<\/a>, and a fine tribute to Chester, the Hi-Line town where Aaberg was born and where he now lives again.<\/p>\n<p>The piece is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/special-report\/city-makers-american-futures\/\">American Futures<\/a>, a project I had not previously heard of. It involves Fallows and her husband, longtime Atlantic contributor James Fallows, flying all over the country in a single-engine plane, sort of a technologically upgraded version of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008U45WIS\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\">Travels with Charley<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good excerpt from the article, which also has plenty of links to Aaberg&#8217;s music:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aaberg says, &#8216;I love this land. There is something about this country that really opens me up.&#8217; He talks about the amount of time and the quality of the time he spent in Chester. &#8216;When I was here, I was really here.&#8217; He talked about the relationship between his music and seeing the land here, watching the sky change, seeing the Sweetgrass Hills, watching the flights of birds. &#8216;All incredibly important to me,&#8217; he says, and a source of his inspiration.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing on The Altantic magazine&#8217;s website, Deborah Fallows pays a fine tribute to composer-pianist Philip Aaberg, and a fine tribute to Chester, the Hi-Line town where Aaberg was born and where he now lives again. The piece is part of American Futures, a project I had not previously heard of. It involves Fallows and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2209,4039,4037,4036,4038],"class_list":["post-11039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-chester","tag-deborah-fallows","tag-james-fallows","tag-philip-aaberg","tag-the-atlantic","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}