{"id":1440,"date":"2010-02-23T10:56:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T10:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:56:18","slug":"self-i-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Self,&#8221; I said&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now and again I dip back into past trains of thought and wander around for a bit. Today&#8217;s venture was inspired by a first listen to the first disk in Allen Lowe&#8217;s stupendous jazz history (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/That-DevilinTune-History-1895-1950-1\/dp\/B000FJH13K\">That Devilin&#8217; Tune: A Jazz History [1895-1950]<\/a>, but available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenlowe.com\/projects.html\">from him directly<\/a> for considerably less), which led me to revisit <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/musics\/ccsinmlog.html\">the logfile I&#8217;d constructed<\/a> as I prepared to teach a final iteration of Cross-Cultural Studies in Music (winter term 2005). And there I found a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/musics\/23x.html\">a page I&#8217;d made one morning when the DSL was down<\/a>. Always interesting to meet one&#8217;s own former self, and a pleasure to find that one approves of what the former self was thinking. A home-made aphorism gives something of the flavor you&#8217;ll encounter if you click that link:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taming the babbling brook or the raging torrent is a vain hope, and really one must settle for dipping the cup. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now and again I dip back into past trains of thought and wander around for a bit. Today&#8217;s venture was inspired by a first listen to the first disk in Allen Lowe&#8217;s stupendous jazz history (That Devilin&#8217; Tune: A Jazz History [1895-1950], but available from him directly for considerably less), which led me to revisit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","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=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}