{"id":12462,"date":"2015-05-01T22:38:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T02:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=12462"},"modified":"2015-05-01T22:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T02:38:03","slug":"leonard-bernstein-on-jfk-and-life-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=12462","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Bernstein, on JFK and life and art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=12450\" target=\"_blank\">I posted a link<\/a> to an address that John F. Kennedy made at Amherst College honoring Robert Frost. Towards the end of that article, there was another link to a Brainpickings page about Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s response to JFK&#8217;s assassination.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence. \u2014 Leonard Bernstein<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and, I know it&#8217;s in the quote box:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. \u2014 Leonard Bernstein<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/11\/25\/leonard-bernstein-jfk-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">read it all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence. \u2014 Leonard Bernstein <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=12462\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,154],"tags":[403,402,224],"class_list":["post-12462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-in-the-world","category-from-the-quote-box","tag-artintheworld","tag-bernstein","tag-quote"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-3f0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12463,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462\/revisions\/12463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}