{"id":222,"date":"2016-01-03T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/the-compass-is-broken-still\/"},"modified":"2016-01-03T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T16:00:45","slug":"the-compass-is-broken-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/the-compass-is-broken-still\/","title":{"rendered":"The compass is broken still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em> has been released to great success. As expected, John Williams&rsquo; score is marvelous. Many folks are writing articles, so I&rsquo;ve been reading quite a lot. Including this bit, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/listening-to-star-wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Ross&rsquo; New Yorker piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Williams\u2019s wider influence on musical culture can\u2019t be quantified, but it\u2019s surely vast. The brilliant young composer Andrew Norman took up writing music after watching \u201cStar Wars\u201d on video&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Which sent me, of course, on an investigation of Norman, of whom I had not yet heard. I listened to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5V_psDY3Jho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a>. Then my heart wept.<\/p>\n<p>If you need <a href=\"http:\/\/mind.tumblr.com\/post\/93700228840\/where-are-we-headed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a refresher<\/a> from seven years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been released to great success. As expected, John Williams&rsquo; score is marvelous. Many folks are writing articles, so I&rsquo;ve been reading quite a lot. Including this bit, from Alex Ross&rsquo; New Yorker piece: Williams\u2019s wider influence on musical culture can\u2019t be quantified, but it\u2019s surely vast. The brilliant young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-s2n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidjdowns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}