{"id":56,"date":"2006-04-29T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2006-04-29T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T21:35:18","slug":"down-to-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Down to the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/DumeStairs2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/RealAudio\/TrioforClVivace.m3u\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/mscblue.jpg\"\"alt=\"listen to Phos Hilaron\"\/><font color=#330033>&#8230;listen<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/TrioforClpg1s.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#330033>&#8230;info about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#417B68>Click on the blue music icon above to hear some of the Vivace movement from my &#8220;Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano&#8221;.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The stairs that lead from the Point Dume Headlands to the sand. Yes, they are steep, although not quite as death-defying as they appear here. Perhaps forty feet up or so.<\/p>\n<p>Perspective is a funny thing. From this vantage, the wave coming in looks as though it could be ten feet high, but it&#8217;s actually more like ten inches. And the cliffs appear to loom dramatically over their scree of fallen offspring, yet those rocks could be held in one&#8217;s palm.<\/p>\n<p>The deceptions of photography always amuse me. I&#8217;ve heard more than one remark of surprise from someone just meeting me who had known my face solely from the website. Apparently, some are expecting a far, far larger person (in all directions) than the one standing in front of them. I suppose a different photo might be in order, but I always liked that one because it was taken when I wasn&#8217;t expecting it, as I suddenly turned from the wind on a blustery day at the Cove. I prefer that reality to something more contrived, even if more standardly beautiful.<br \/>\nPerspective is a funny thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-56","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\/56"}],"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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}