{"id":12195,"date":"2020-06-10T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/?p=12195"},"modified":"2020-06-10T08:46:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:46:54","slug":"let-me-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2020\/06\/10\/let-me-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning. \u00a0Welcome to Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12196 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/files\/2020\/06\/giphy-noresize-10.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0Outer space.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Inner space.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0What makes you mad? \u00a0Not peeved. \u00a0Not miffed, \u00a0Not annoyed. \u00a0Not bothered. \u00a0But\u00a0<em>mad\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; or, as Joni sings in &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jonimitchell.com\/music\/song.cfm?id=55\">The Sire of Sorrow (Job&#8217;s Sad Song)<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; what makes you want to &#8220;spit out [your] bitterness&#8221;? \u00a0Draw that.<\/p>\n<p>Keep those pencils in motion!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sire of Sorrow (Job&#039;s Sad Song)\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vf9QTx1G0kU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0Title: &#8220;Joni Mitchell &#8211; &#8216;The Sire of Sorrow&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5. \u00a0Date it.<\/p>\n<p>6. \u00a0Send it to me.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read about the Book of Job &#8211; the ancient text examining the struggle to maintain faith in times of extreme suffering that Joni used as an inspirational structure for the song, go <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Job\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read a brief comparison of the Book of Job with Joni&#8217;s song, go <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/frbillmcnichols-sacredimages.com\/blogs\/the-sire-of-sorrow-jobs-sad-song.html?currencyid=CAD\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read about polio, the virus Joni suffered from as a child and perhaps informed this song, go <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jonimitchell.com\/library\/view.cfm?id=2701\">here<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0If you want to read about the strange condition she has suffered from in later life, go <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/joni-mitchell-and-the-mystery-of-morgellons-disease\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to here her redo of the song with the London Symphony Orchestra, go <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-jboNZG8GB8\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, see you at 10:00!<\/p>\n<p>ps: \u00a0Extra Credit: What do the janitors of Shadowland look like? \u00a0Draw that in a new frame, title it &#8220;The Janitors of Shadowland,&#8221; and send it to me, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning. \u00a0Welcome to Wednesday. Yep. Steps: 1. \u00a0Outer space. 2. \u00a0Inner space. 3. \u00a0What makes you mad? \u00a0Not peeved. \u00a0Not miffed, \u00a0Not annoyed. \u00a0Not bothered. \u00a0But\u00a0mad\u00a0&#8211; or, as Joni sings in &#8220;The Sire of Sorrow (Job&#8217;s Sad Song),&#8221; what makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2020\/06\/10\/let-me-speak\/\">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\/12195"}],"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=12195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12200,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195\/revisions\/12200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}