{"id":5622,"date":"2015-10-07T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2015-10-08T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T00:25:10","slug":"a-birthday-salute-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5622","title":{"rendered":"a birthday salute . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIn 1998, Ma founded Silkroad, a nonprofit outfit that connects diverse cultures and musicians not only through Ma\u2019s Silk Road Ensemble (for which more than 80 pieces have been commissioned), but also by supporting education and cross-cultural business and artistic partnerships.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 NPR.org<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today is the 60th birthday of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/deceptivecadence\/2015\/10\/07\/446364616\/the-diverse-world-of-yo-yo-ma\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Yo-Yo Ma<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, among the world\u2019s most impressive creative individuals. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yo-Yo_Ma\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ma@60.jpg\" title=\"Yo-Yo Ma at 60\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"9\" align=right size-full wp-image-2874\" \/><\/a> When he brought his Silk Road Ensemble to my hometown in 2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1642\" target=\"_blank\">I was inspired<\/a> to begin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/category\/silk-road-series\" target=\"_blank\">a series of collage poems<\/a> dedicated to East-West understanding. I can think of no living artist with a greater curiosity for diverse influences, or a wider versatility, fusing cultural traditions with innovative experimentation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dixon_SilkRoadDetails.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dixon_SilkRoadDetails.jpg\" title=\"Silk Road Details ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"444\" height=\"408\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dixon_SilkRoadDetails.jpg 888w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dixon_SilkRoadDetails-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 446px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Silk Road Details<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ndigital compilation by J A Dixon<br \/>\na birthday salute to Yo-Yo Ma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn 1998, Ma founded Silkroad, a nonprofit outfit that connects diverse cultures and musicians not only through Ma\u2019s Silk Road Ensemble (for which more than 80 pieces have been commissioned), but also by supporting education and cross-cultural business and artistic partnerships.\u201d \u2013 NPR.org &nbsp; Today is the 60th birthday of Yo-Yo Ma, among the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,13,54,46,73,72],"tags":[90,166,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5676,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/5676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}