{"id":154,"date":"2005-03-28T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-09-18T20:47:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T00:47:17","slug":"paul-hester-1959-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/paul-hester-1959-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hester 1959-2005 (Neil Finn Interview Part Three)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f7\/Paul-hester-sf-np1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"904\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Nancy J. Price. CC-By-SA http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/podcast\/Neil_Finn_Part_Three.mp3\">third and final part<\/a> of my 1987 interview with Neil Finn of Crowded House. In this part I ask Neil about &#8220;Hole in the River,&#8221; a song about his aunt&#8217;s suicide. Given the news this weekend that Crowded House drummer Paul Hester took his own life Friday night, Neil&#8217;s comments are even more poignant.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dedicating all three of these interview podcasts to Paul and his family. I don&#8217;t feel like writing very much more about this tragic event. The podcast has my other comments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6690\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-154-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/podcast\/Neil_Finn_Part_Three.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/podcast\/Neil_Finn_Part_Three.mp3\">http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/podcast\/Neil_Finn_Part_Three.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/podcast\/Neil_Finn_Part_Three.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?powerpress_pinw=154-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/podcast\/Neil_Finn_Part_Three.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Neil_Finn_Part_Three.mp3\">Download<\/a> (9.1MB) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third and final part of my 1987 interview with Neil Finn of Crowded House. In this part I ask Neil about &#8220;Hole in the River,&#8221; a song about his aunt&#8217;s suicide. Given the news this weekend that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/paul-hester-1959-2005\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardo_stuff","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-2u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}