{"id":130,"date":"2004-02-06T23:07:43","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T22:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=130"},"modified":"2004-02-06T23:07:43","modified_gmt":"2004-02-06T22:07:43","slug":"mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/06\/mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there are songs you haven&rsquo;t listen at &#8211; not heard, really listening &#8211; for a long long time.<br \/>\nvery good songs, though.<\/p>\n<p>and one evening, like this one or any other, an ordinary evening of work at home, you find the cd where one of these songs is, and you play it.<\/p>\n<p>as soon as the first notes of the song ring in your room, you feel a strong rush of calm excitment climbing through your spine. how could you have forgotten to listen to this song ?<br \/>\nand you start to sing, loudly, but not too loud, as not to cover the soft voice and mysterious course of notes.<\/p>\n<p>it feels so blissful that suddenly, while you&rsquo;re singing and still working, you burst out laughing, laughing so intensely that  your laugh might just open your chest in two.<br \/>\nyou stay transfixed.<\/p>\n<p>and it lasts.<br \/>\nabout forever.<\/p>\n<p>or until the song ends.<br \/>\nand you play it again then, right away. <\/p>\n<p>now close your eyes. feel the music. grin. intensely. you are alive.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>this post was kindly brought to you by the side-effects of Sarah McLachlan &#8211; building a mystery (live)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there are songs you haven&rsquo;t listen at &#8211; not heard, really listening &#8211; for a long long time. very good songs, though. and one evening, like this one or any other, an ordinary evening of work at home, you find the cd where one of these songs is, and you play it. as soon as [&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":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unfinished-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}