{"id":770,"date":"2009-10-14T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=770"},"modified":"2009-10-14T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:22:41","slug":"white-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/10\/14\/white-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"white flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And when we meet, which I&#8217;m sure we will<br \/>\nAll that was there will be there still<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll let it pass and hold my tongue<br \/>\nAnd you will think that I&#8217;ve moved on<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve quoted that before, but it struck me again on the bike ride in this morning. She once stated that she didn&#8217;t understand why I listened mostly to pop music and not local artists, and compared that how I felt so adamantly about open source and diy should mean I&#8217;d understand why the latter is so important. The trouble is that I&#8217;m not an artist. While on some level I appreciate art, and it&#8217;s existence, I have no appreciation for the academic qualities of art. My appreciation of art is how it resonates with me, and when it comes to music, I appreciate when something touches me and I can identify with it. Which is why I tend to prefer music with lyrics, and particularly non-cryptic lyrics, over music alone. Although I&#8217;ll definitely admit some music can strike a chord with emotions, the music in my social circles tends not to be the kind to strike deep [positive] emotion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I&#8217;m not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I&#8217;ve experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. &#8211; Gregory Orr<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And when we meet, which I&#8217;m sure we will All that was there will be there still I&#8217;ll let it pass and hold my tongue And you will think that I&#8217;ve moved on I&#8217;ve quoted that before, but it struck me again on the bike ride in this morning. She once stated that she didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}