{"id":11854,"date":"2020-05-19T08:34:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/?p=11854"},"modified":"2020-05-19T08:34:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:34:56","slug":"an-andante-start-to-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2020\/05\/19\/an-andante-start-to-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"An Andante Start to the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11856 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/files\/2020\/05\/giphy-12.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, I know. <em>\u00a0I know<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0<em>Outer space<\/em>: take an extended moment to clear off your work space and remove distractions.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0<em>Inner space<\/em>: take an extended moment to find your alert but relaxed position and then breathe to remove inner distractions.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0When you are ready, press &#8220;Play&#8221; below to listen to Gil Shaham, Andre Previn, and the London Symphony Orchestra perform the 2nd Movement from Samuel Barber&#8217;s Violin Concerto while you copy <strong>your choice of one of these two photos<\/strong> taken by Fergus Bourke in the Twelve Bens in Connemara.<\/p>\n<p>(Remember Lynda Barry&#8217;s incredible advice: this is a map!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11855\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/files\/2020\/05\/fergus-bourke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to be able to zoom in on these photos, right-click (or control-click) <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutualart.com\/Artwork\/Two-landscape-photos--Storm-Clouds-Over-\/5E2F488F4C653DA4\">here<\/a><\/strong> to open the image in a separate tab or window and then come back to start the music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barber: Concerto for Violin &amp; Orchestra, Op. 14 - 2. Andante\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nuETejnmkX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0Title: &#8220;Storm Clouds Over the Bens,&#8221; by Fergus Bourke.<\/p>\n<p>5. \u00a0Date it.<\/p>\n<p>6. \u00a0File it somewhere safe so that we can look at it together later (this day will come!).<\/p>\n<p>See you at 10:00!<\/p>\n<p>ps: don&#8217;t forget: we will share our learning from being outside over the weekend (as much as I love to see you all squirm, if you didn&#8217;t do it, please just own your choice and spare us all &#8211; including you &#8211; the discomfort of watching someone wing it; share your thoughts another day).<\/p>\n<p>pps: isn&#8217;t <em>squirm<\/em> a great word??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back. Oh, I know. \u00a0I know. Steps: 1. \u00a0Outer space: take an extended moment to clear off your work space and remove distractions. 2. \u00a0Inner space: take an extended moment to find your alert but relaxed position and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2020\/05\/19\/an-andante-start-to-the-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11857,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}