{"id":334,"date":"2007-10-23T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=334"},"modified":"2007-10-23T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T06:33:00","slug":"do-nothing-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Do Nothing Mondays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can hardly do anything on Mondays because I&#8217;m in classes all day.  I woke up, did some homework, drove to college, had 9 hours of mostly boring classes, drove home, blah blah blah, you get the point.  I don&#8217;t even have time to write this blog. \ud83d\ude41  But I will anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up some more books at the library today (that I probably won&#8217;t have time to read) by David Cope.  One is <em>Vritual Music<\/em>, which will probably make me not like Douglas Hofstadter even more&#8230; and <em>Techniques of Contemporary Composers<\/em> or something&#8230; I mostly want to read what he has to say about chromaticism.<\/p>\n<p>On the way to college today I was listening to the classical music radio when I heard a theme by Mozart.  It sounded wonderful, but I didn&#8217;t remember Mozart ever seeming so romantic (as in the &#8220;Romantic&#8221; period&#8230; Romanticism).  His orchestration of his theme was just unlike anything he had ever done, what a genius he was!  Then when it ended the radio lady said it was <em>Variations on a Theme by Mozart<\/em> by Chopin.  Aha!  Chopin and Mozart, you tricksters!  It was quite a beautiful piece, unfortunately my college didn&#8217;t seem to have a copy at the library&#8230; I&#8217;ll have to ask them to order it!  (Eventually!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can hardly do anything on Mondays because I&#8217;m in classes all day. I woke up, did some homework, drove to college, had 9 hours of mostly boring classes, drove home, blah blah blah, you get the point. I don&#8217;t even have time to write this blog. \ud83d\ude41 But I [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-5o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}