{"id":1045,"date":"2011-09-30T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T16:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2011-09-30T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T17:11:50","slug":"of-castles-and-airships-coming-at-some-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Of Castles and Airships&#8230; coming at some point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not get much sleep last night; I was up very late (or early), obsessed with finishing a new orchestral composition, which I think turned out very nicely.  As digital composers may know, after you finish a piece, it gets completely stuck in your head and you are almost powerless to resist the urge to listen to it over and over and over with proud admiration.  So I only got a few hours of sleep, and even that wasn&#8217;t very fulfilling, as I was nervous about not waking up in time for work and thus tossed and turned throughout those few hours.<\/p>\n<p>And then, when I did set out to go to work, the car wouldn&#8217;t start.  Just clicky-clicky-clicky.  And I don&#8217;t know anything about cars.  So I had to be chaffeured (sp?) to work and got in late, but oh well, what can one do?  I was then promptly fired.  No, just kidding.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I think I will call my new piece <em>Of Castles and Airships<\/em>.  A nice fantastical ring to it, and airships have been on my mind lately from my novel writing.  I&#8217;m not sure what to do for the music visualization though; I feel the urge to do something besides an ordinary Music Animation Machine video; perhaps animate something by hand, though that may take forever.  I&#8217;ll have to ponder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not get much sleep last night; I was up very late (or early), obsessed with finishing a new orchestral composition, which I think turned out very nicely. As digital composers may know, after you finish a piece, it gets completely stuck in your head and you are almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23],"tags":[430],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-gR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}