{"id":1159,"date":"2008-12-28T09:09:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T09:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2014-03-06T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:14:44","slug":"and-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"and another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These things seem to keep happening, this time as I thought about where to begin in laying out a landscape of African musics that I&#8217;ve been accumulating in mp3 form since the spring. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Start anywhere<br \/>It all connects<br \/>and the trick is to choose<br \/>among branching paths<br \/>or perhaps it&#8217;s to<br \/>unwind the thread<br \/>as you sally forth<br \/>so as to be able<br \/>to reconstruct<br \/>your wanderings<\/p>\n<p>That reconstruction is a tale<br \/>a narrative of Tolkien proportions<br \/>though without the necessity<br \/>of any end to the hero&#8217;s quest<br \/>and indeed with no heroes<br \/>or deus ex machina<br \/>just the progress of discovery<\/p>\n<p>And what does the Argonaut seek?<br \/>Not fleeces or immured maidens<br \/>gloriously slain foes<br \/>or vanquished enemies<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the link, the nexus, <br \/>the skein of allusion<br \/>the journey and not<br \/>the destination<br \/>the joys of finding and telling<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These things seem to keep happening, this time as I thought about where to begin in laying out a landscape of African musics that I&#8217;ve been accumulating in mp3 form since the spring. Start anywhereIt all connectsand the trick is to chooseamong branching pathsor perhaps it&#8217;s tounwind the threadas you sally forthso as to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metastuff","category-pome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}