{"id":39782,"date":"2017-05-23T12:50:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T18:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=39782"},"modified":"2017-05-23T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T18:51:20","slug":"night-accordion-for-brandon-niemeyer-by-phyllis-nobles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/night-accordion-for-brandon-niemeyer-by-phyllis-nobles\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Night Accordion for Brandon Niemeyer&#8221; by Phyllis Nobles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I got the news of <strong>Brandon Niemeyer<\/strong>\u2019s passing about 4:30\u00a0in the morning. As is unfortunately the case these days, I didn&#8217;t get the sad news from a friend. An Amber Alert about a little 6-year-old boy in Jackson who was kidnapped outside <strong>Kroger<\/strong> went off on my phone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I woke up and scrolled through Facebook. And I saw that Brandon Niemeyer left us yesterday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Right now the grief is heavy inside our hearts, and it\u2019s hard to read all the comments people have left without starting to weep. Living for the moment inside another time zone<em>,\u00a0<\/em>my mind scrolled backwards to the last time I saw one of my all-time favorite people. And deep inside memory, I retrieved this story I had all but forgotten about. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s here outside <strong>Square Books<\/strong> that, for me, Brandon Niemeyer will forever have a fresh haircut. And be alive. And well. And happy.\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the news of Brandon Niemeyer\u2019s passing about 4:30\u00a0in the morning. As is unfortunately the case these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":39783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[10455,2052,755,5,4,10456,602],"class_list":["post-39782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-people","tag-brandon-niemeyer","tag-facebook","tag-kroger","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-phyllis-nobles","tag-square-books","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-23-BrandonNiemeyer-PhillisNoble.jpg?fit=750%2C329&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}