{"id":467,"date":"2007-03-27T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=467"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:27:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:27:47","slug":"someone-please-reassure-me-i-didnt-dream-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/03\/someone-please-reassure-me-i-didnt-dream-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Someone please reassure me I didn&#8217;t dream this"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When finishing up <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/03\/stockhausen-sirius-and-self-belief.html\">the previous post<\/a> (which had sat around unfinished for weeks, poor thing) I got to the bit about where artists&#8217; ideas come from and remembered an anecdote <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I think<\/span> I heard on the radio about 20 years ago, but have never encountered since.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Igor Stravinsky, when asked what he was thinking of while composing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicalnotes.net\/classics\/rite.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Rite of Spring<\/span><\/a>, once replied* &#8220;Fresh air and cheese, plus a lot of electricity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Incidentally, googling <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">stravinsky +air +cheese +electricity<\/span> will take you to a bunch of Frank Zappa sites.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">* <span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Allegedly! <\/span><span>i.e. according to me.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When finishing up the previous post (which had sat around unfinished for weeks, poor thing) I got to the bit about where artists&#8217; ideas come from and remembered an anecdote I think I heard on the radio about 20 years ago, but have never encountered since. Igor Stravinsky, when asked what he was thinking of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}