{"id":1620,"date":"2014-02-23T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T22:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2014-02-23T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T22:48:18","slug":"how-to-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2014\/02\/23\/how-to-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO LISTEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=kyla&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">KYLA<\/span><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Don&#8217;t think<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t speak<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t move.<br \/>\nJust sit on the leveled park bench.<\/p>\n<p>Hear the musical notes blowing<br \/>\nalong the chords of the violin.<\/p>\n<p>Hear the finch&#8217;s symphony<br \/>\nas he reinvents Mozart.<\/p>\n<p>Take your ears and use them<br \/>\nas guitar picks; so you can<\/p>\n<p>experience the guitar&#8217;s thrashing melody.<br \/>\nUse them as a bow for the<\/p>\n<p>world&#8217;s smallest violin. That way<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll see that no sound is too small.<\/p>\n<p>Use them to ring each<br \/>\nbell in the choir of the bells.<\/p>\n<p>String them up like puppets so they<br \/>\ncan hear from a composer&#8217;s point of view<\/p>\n<p>as he instructs an orchestra.<br \/>\nSeat them at the front of the theatre<\/p>\n<p>so that sleeping beauty&#8217;s fatal gasp<br \/>\nrings in their memory.<\/p>\n<p>Let them sink to the Titanic so<br \/>\nthey can hear the song<\/p>\n<p>of the blue whales.<br \/>\nThen, you&#8217;ll know how to listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=kyla&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0\" target=\"_blank\">KYLA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t think<br \/> Don&#8217;t speak<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t move.<br \/> Just sit on the leveled park bench.<\/p>\n<p>Hear the musical notes blowing<br \/> along the chords of the violin.<\/p>\n<p>Hear the finch&#8217;s symphony<br \/> as he reinvents Mozart.<\/p>\n<p>Take your ears and use them<br \/> as guitar picks; so you can<\/p>\n<p>experience the guitar&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79489],"coauthors":[79521],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-kyla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}