{"id":8140,"date":"2013-03-11T22:03:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T02:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2013-03-11T22:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T02:16:22","slug":"short-story-trip-and-the-universe-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=8140","title":{"rendered":"Short (story) trip and the universe speaks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I had hoped to surprise the inestimable Mrs Burns, but she kept her tuckered-out self at home tonight leaving me to enjoy these short stories by myself.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker (PUHLEASE let him call&#8230;God, please&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Smoke by Michael Chabon<\/li>\n<li>Music for Lovers by David Sedaris<\/li>\n<li>A Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A good time was had by all, start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>I think it must be a sign from the universe that twice in two days Siri has chosen Josefina&#8217;s Waltz, the music which plays big and important for my novel&#8217;s two main characters. Makes me cry each and every time with love and joy and being on the brink of new.<\/p>\n<p>Below, a live capture of it (first half of a medley here), <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/josefins-waltz\/id81005155?i=81005091\" title=\"Josefin's Waltz performed by Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas\" target=\"_blank\">go here and get it from iTunes<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Josefins-Waltz\/dp\/B000QPO500\" title=\"Josefin's Waltz by Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas - Amazon\" target=\"_blank\">here on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U0-9I37_5ag?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good time was had by all, start to finish. And then, during the car ride home, one of the most beautiful tunes in the world by two wonderful musicians&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=8140\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[514,522,55],"class_list":["post-8140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-in-the-world","tag-art-in-the-world","tag-do-the-work","tag-weather-and-other-phenomenon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-27i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140","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=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8144,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions\/8144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}