{"id":822,"date":"2008-01-19T18:45:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T22:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2008\/01\/19\/spooky-tune\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T18:46:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T22:46:21","slug":"spooky-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/822","title":{"rendered":"Spooky tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/spooky.jpg' \/  hspace=\"19\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\"> Earlier today I was playing a CD of favorite Russian melodies (Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic), and our disc player got stuck in a loop, which is happening more frequently as of late. A fragment of the soft clarinet introduction to Borodin\u2019s <em>In the Steppes of Central Asia<\/em> kept repeating itself as seamlessly as if it had been written that way, and I had little desire to go fix it.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t help but accept it as a vague metaphor\u2014a somewhat melancholy, insidiously pleasant rut that would probably cause damage if allowed to continue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I was playing a CD of favorite Russian melodies (Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic), and our disc player got stuck in a loop, which is happening more frequently as of late. A fragment of the soft clarinet introduction to Borodin\u2019s In the Steppes of Central Asia kept repeating itself as seamlessly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}