{"id":23428,"date":"2024-11-15T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23428"},"modified":"2025-03-08T12:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T17:32:26","slug":"mid-november-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23428","title":{"rendered":"Mid-November Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Today I got an e-mail saying that my jury duty has been canceled. Excellent news! I&#8217;ve managed to avoid jury duty my entire life so far. Do you think Fate will punish me someday by putting me on the jury of one of those awful weeks-long trials? Seems likely, but until then, hooray!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What I resent most right now is how everyone&#8217;s acting as if what&#8217;s happening in America is perfectly normal. We veered past normal years ago and have been driving deep into a bizarro version of reality, but you&#8217;d hardly know it sometimes from reading the news. (Speaking of the news, I&#8217;m now a reader of <em>The Boston Globe<\/em>. They offered me digital access for 26 weeks at $1. How could I say no to that?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve been listening to Stravinsky&#8217;s <em>The Rite of Spring<\/em> on YouTube. The video is great. So are the comments on it. I recommend both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stravinsky The Rite of Spring \/\/ London Symphony Orchestra\/Sir Simon Rattle\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EkwqPJZe8ms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23682,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23428\/revisions\/23682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}