{"id":3264,"date":"2010-04-18T23:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2010-04-27T23:49:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T03:49:48","slug":"drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/04\/18\/drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partway through the third movement,<br \/>\nas the violin wept softly<br \/>\nbeneath the sweet soprano,<br \/>\nI could hear the voice<br \/>\nin the audience:<br \/>\nmore rumble than<!--more--> words,<br \/>\nsomeone very old, deaf,<br \/>\nunaware<br \/>\nthat it wasn&#8217;t nap time,<br \/>\nhoping for tea and biscuits<br \/>\nin counterpoint to the soloist<br \/>\nwho seemed to understand;<br \/>\nfor, after all,<br \/>\nthe music spoke of forgiveness<br \/>\nand that old voice<br \/>\nhad probably earned a lifetime<br \/>\nof forgiveness from the soprano<br \/>\nwho would sing again<br \/>\nand from us,<br \/>\nwho would hear her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo day 18: I attended a superb concert by Chorus Novus. Some old bird in the audience did what they do sometimes. (#1069) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/04\/18\/drone\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,890,3],"tags":[997,909,182,145],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-napowrimo","category-poetry","tag-aging","tag-chorus-novus","tag-music","tag-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}