{"id":65,"date":"2001-04-24T00:33:16","date_gmt":"2001-04-24T07:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2001-04-24T00:33:16","modified_gmt":"2001-04-24T07:33:16","slug":"for-those-of-you-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2001\/04\/for-those-of-you-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"for those of you checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for those of you checking my website.. sorry, I haven&#8217;t updated it recently. I&#8217;ve been super busy, and I&#8217;ve spent very little time in front of my computer. but for now, I&#8217;ll leave you with a few thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>tonight, at the UCLA Percussion Ensembles performance, during the song, &#8220;Memoires de l&#8217;eau,&#8221; a little moth flew across the stage, from the left to the right, and danced a little for us to the beating, sparkling, and popping of the drums and chimes&#8230; and as the sounds emanating from the instruments gave me a fully formed image of water splashing on rocks, flowing through, eroding the land, droplets leaping from itself into the sky and back again, I could see the little moth doing its little dance with the water&#8230;and it struck me, reminded me how beauty can appear in such unexpected places.. and sway with such poetry in its gentle gestures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>oh, and a link for all those people who thought print journalism was dead~!! See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/04\/21\/technology\/21PAPE.html?searchpv=tech\" class=\"extlink\">article<\/a> in the New York Times. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for those of you checking my website.. sorry, I haven&#8217;t updated it recently. I&#8217;ve been super busy, and I&#8217;ve spent very little time in front of my computer. but for now, I&#8217;ll leave you with a few thoughts: tonight, at the UCLA Percussion Ensembles performance, during the song, &#8220;Memoires de l&#8217;eau,&#8221; a little moth flew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2001\/04\/for-those-of-you-checking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;for those of you checking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}