{"id":4000,"date":"2011-12-07T12:52:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2011-12-07T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:06:05","slug":"mind-games-and-thoughts-there-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=4000","title":{"rendered":"Mind games and thoughts there on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night as I got to the last few columns of pieces to sew together, I turned the iPhone to shuffle the English Country Dance Playlist and played &#8220;Name that Dance Tune&#8221; to pass the time. Here&#8217;s the take home message from listening to a couple hours of random dance tunes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are dance tunes for which I can instantly give you the dance title.<\/li>\n<li>There are dances which I can not only tell you the name, but a clear memory of when I learned it or did it.<\/li>\n<li>There are dances that I don&#8217;t connect the tune, figures or name, but I can tell you that I learned it in a particular pavilion of Pinewoods Camp.<\/li>\n<li>There are dance tunes I can tell if they belong to a set dance or a longways.<\/li>\n<li>There are dance tunes that put a particular movement in my brain. I remain skeptical about these since an eight-beat figure can fit to any eight beats of music.<\/li>\n<li>There are dances which, given the title, I can provide you with a doodled tune.<\/li>\n<li>There are dances which I could probably give you most of the figures, or at least the crux move, with or without being able to doodle the tune.<\/li>\n<li>There are any number of dance tunes that I&#8217;m familiar with but don&#8217;t remember their titles, let alone anything about the dances themselves, but fewer of these than I would have guessed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night as I got to the last few columns of pieces to sew together, I turned the iPhone to shuffle the English Country Dance Playlist and played &#8220;Name that Dance Tune&#8221; to pass the time. Here&#8217;s the take home message from listening to a couple hours of random dance tunes <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=4000\">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":[38],"tags":[520,42,44],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilting","tag-dance","tag-sacred-threads","tag-sept-11"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-12w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","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=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}