{"id":3689,"date":"2013-08-27T08:21:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2013-08-27T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:56:54","slug":"excuses-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=3689","title":{"rendered":"Excuses, excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/bella-bookshelf400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" alt=\"[IMAGE] well read\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/Archipelago_clip_later2.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/Archipelagopg1.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>Waiting.<\/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>Well, the reason I haven&#8217;t blogged for a month is the exact same reason I haven&#8217;t finished this big piece of music yet:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/bella-keyboard2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"292\" alt=\"[IMAGE] access blocked\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>All access blocked.<br \/>\nUnless I only need to type plus-signs and end-quotation marks.<br \/>\nI mean, really: how am I expected to be able to work under these conditions?<\/p>\n<p>Companion humans such as I, owned by loving animals who allow us shelter, are very tolerant of these sorts of inconveniences.<br \/>\n(I try to explain this to my clients).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/bella-alex400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" alt=\"[IMAGE] pet human\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And so, blog readers wait for the next installment.<br \/>\nAudiences wait for the next piece.<br \/>\nAnd Bella and I wait for the muses to be kind.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/bella-waits2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"[IMAGE] waiting\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;ll be more coming; stay tuned.<br \/>\nOr at least, microtonal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/tuning-cat400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"316\" alt=\"[IMAGE] stay tuned\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Waiting. Tweet Well, the reason I haven&#8217;t blogged for a month is the exact same reason I haven&#8217;t finished this big piece of music yet: All access blocked. Unless I only need to type plus-signs and end-quotation marks. I mean, really: how am I expected to be able to [&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-3689","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\/3689"}],"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=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3701,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}