{"id":23926,"date":"2025-08-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23926"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:17:42","slug":"found-on-my-desk-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23926","title":{"rendered":"Found on My Desk #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Found on my desk: a photocopy of an epigraph from Erling Kagge&#8217;s book <em>Walking<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>You&#8217;re walking. And you don&#8217;t always realize it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you&#8217;re always falling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With each step, you fall forward slightly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then catch yourself from falling . . .<\/p>\n<cite>Laurie Anderson, &#8220;Walking and Falling&#8221;<br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d thought at first that &#8220;Walking and Falling&#8221; was a poem, but it turned out to be a musical piece. Though I like the written excerpt, the music does nothing for me. To get a better taste of Anderson&#8217;s music, I&#8217;d recommend &#8220;O Superman&#8221; (video link below). It&#8217;s arguably a masterpiece, but be warned that it&#8217;s not only strangely hypnotic, but also disturbing, and if you let it get to you, it can generate some big feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laurie Anderson - O Superman (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vkfpi2H8tOE?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":"<p>Found on my desk: a photocopy of an epigraph from Erling Kagge&#8217;s book Walking. You&#8217;re walking. And you don&#8217;t always realize it But you&#8217;re always falling With each step, you fall forward slightly And then catch yourself from falling . &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23926\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926"}],"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=23926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23929,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926\/revisions\/23929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}