{"id":6555,"date":"2021-09-28T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2021-09-28T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:32:05","slug":"appreciating-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6555","title":{"rendered":"Appreciating beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Music exists only in a passing of time, racing past us like the mid-nineenth-century trains Ruskin so hated.  It is utterly non-fixed, and to focus on one moment is to destroy the whole.  It is a forest that we have to pass through, not a single tree that we can contemplate or capture.  But, if hearing and seeing beauty have different timetables they both require a sort of repetition in order to be fully appreciated: music needs to be heard many times, and the visual world needs multiple, if consecutive, seconds of looking.  Only in such repetition perhaps can we grasp or hold onto beauty.  <br><br>\u2013 Stephen Hough <\/p><cite>S. Hough, <em>Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More<\/em>, London, Faber &amp; Faber, 2019, p. 225.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music exists only in a passing of time, racing past us like the mid-nineenth-century trains Ruskin so hated. It is utterly non-fixed, and to focus on one moment is to destroy the whole. It is a forest that we have to pass through, not a single tree that we can contemplate or capture. But, if [&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":[1509],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-experience-of-art","tag-stephen-hough"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","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=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6556,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}