{"id":4115,"date":"2012-01-05T23:52:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T04:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2012-01-05T23:52:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T04:52:18","slug":"the-amazing-tricks-of-the-human-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=4115","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Tricks of the Human Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was sitting here looking over my research\/reference notes for my NaNoWriMo month wondering how some of the sentences got so scrambled&#8230; Look down a little further and there&#8217;s a bunch of stuff about all the different sorts of fairies. Just the tip of the iceberg really. <\/p>\n<p>I see that selchies are included in a group and there you have it &#8211; the icebergish tip of a song. Thinking&#8230; thinking&#8230; selchie, fisherman &#8220;his hands are his craft, his boat is his art&#8230;&#8221; and BLAM &#8211; there&#8217;s the whole thing and the melody. Put the above phrase into google and am rewarded with the recording artist&#8217;s name &#8211; Lui Collins and am doubly rewarded to be reminded that the author of the lyrics is none other than the esteemed Jane Yolen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luicollins.com\/music\/detail\/lyrics\/Light\/BalladOfTheWhiteSealMaid.html\" title=\"Ballad of the White Seal Maid\" target=\"_blank\">Now that&#8217;s amazing.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, weeping she goes, and still weeping she stays<br \/>\nHer hands are her craft, her babes are her art<br \/>\nA year and a year and a year more she stays<br \/>\nA rock, a cold rock, in her heart.<\/p>\n<p>But what is this hid in the fisherman&#8217;s bag?<br \/>\nIt smells like the ocean, it feels like the sea!<br \/>\nA bonny white sealskin closed up in the bag<br \/>\nAnd &#8220;Never a tear more!&#8221; cries she.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Goodbye to the house and goodbye to the shore<br \/>\nGoodbye to the babes that I never could claim<br \/>\nBut never a thought to the man left on shore<br \/>\nFor selchie&#8217;s my nature and name.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her hands are her craft, her babes are her art<br \/>\nA year and a year and a year more she stays<br \/>\nA rock, a cold rock, in her heart. <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=4115\">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],"tags":[514,32],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-in-the-world","tag-art-in-the-world","tag-miscellaneous-things-seen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-14n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}