{"id":806,"date":"2008-12-15T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=806"},"modified":"2010-01-09T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:26:10","slug":"busy-busy-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/12\/busy-busy-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Busy, Busy World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I.<\/span> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.overgrownpath.com\/2008\/12\/in-search-of-olivier-messiaen.html\">On An Overgrown Path<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Later that year Zuckermann abandoned his harpsichord business and America in disgust at the country&#8217;s involvement in the Vietnam War.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s a good story about how a search to find Olivier Messiaen&#8217;s birthplace in Avignon leads to a conversation with the man who used to provide harpsichords for John Cage, but that sentence belongs in an old Woody Allen story.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">II.<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/sheseesred.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/night-we-lost-our-banksy.html\">She Sees Red<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once upon a time, <a href=\"http:\/\/will-self.com\/2008\/07\/15\/banksy-lost-his-street-cred-the-moment-he-found-fame\/\">Banksy<\/a> visited Melbourne and left a piece of street art.  Culture-conscious locals preserved the ephemera with a sheet of perspex.  Unknown vandal\/artist restores the natural order of things by tipping paint down the back of the perspex.  The obliterated artwork is tagged &#8220;Banksy Woz Ere&#8221;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I. On An Overgrown Path: &#8220;Later that year Zuckermann abandoned his harpsichord business and America in disgust at the country&#8217;s involvement in the Vietnam War.&#8221; It&#8217;s a good story about how a search to find Olivier Messiaen&#8217;s birthplace in Avignon leads to a conversation with the man who used to provide harpsichords for John Cage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}