{"id":4916,"date":"2016-05-16T09:19:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T23:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2016-05-16T09:19:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T23:19:19","slug":"beyond-the-comfort-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4916","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the comfort zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I believe one shouldn&#8217;t be too comfortable when listening to really great music.\u00a0 To appreciate good music, one must be mentally alert, and emotionally receptive.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t be that when you are sitting at home with your feet on a chair.<\/p>\n<p>No, listening to\u00a0 music is more strenuous than that.\u00a0 Music is like the poetry;\u00a0 it is a passion and a problem.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t enjoy and understand it merely by sitting still and letting it soak into your ears.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sergei Rachmaninoff.\u00a0 Cited in Bertensson, Sergei &amp; Leyda, Jay (2001) <em>Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music.\u00a0 <\/em>Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p.256.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe one shouldn&#8217;t be too comfortable when listening to really great music.\u00a0 To appreciate good music, one must be mentally alert, and emotionally receptive.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t be that when you are sitting at home with your feet on a chair. No, listening to\u00a0 music is more strenuous than that.\u00a0 Music is like the poetry;\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[76,1257],"class_list":["post-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-experience-of-art","tag-rachmaninoff","tag-the-experience-of-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4917,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}