{"id":2362,"date":"2012-05-29T12:49:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2012-05-29T12:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:49:22","slug":"hola-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=2362","title":{"rendered":"Hola, baby."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/Havana-cars-rear.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"119\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Havana cars\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/Surface-excerpt.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/Immersionpg1.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>Surfacing.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"alex_shapiro\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back.<br \/>\nFrom Cuba.<br \/>\nIt was a profound trip, and I&#8217;m still searching for the best ways in which to describe it all.<br \/>\nMore rum will probably help. That is, if there&#8217;s any left.<\/p>\n<p>This is a country of great beauty and mind-boggling contradictions. Of enormous potential and infuriating limitations.<br \/>\nOf fantastic, fantastic, music and art and people.<br \/>\nIt is a place that is stubbornly stuck, looking backward to an era that at the time appeared forward-looking to many.<\/p>\n<p>So for a post or two, I&#8217;ll substitute images far from my kelpy home for those far from my comfort level. And maybe yours.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back. To Cuba, someday, because it&#8217;s riveting.<br \/>\nAnd right here on this blog, very soon, because I have glimpses to share, if I can find the words.<br \/>\nAnd the rum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/Havana-cars-front.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"114\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Havana cars\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Surfacing. Tweet Back. From Cuba. It was a profound trip, and I&#8217;m still searching for the best ways in which to describe it all. More rum will probably help. That is, if there&#8217;s any left. This is a country of great beauty and mind-boggling contradictions. Of enormous potential and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}