{"id":2586,"date":"2023-09-30T16:31:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2023-10-01T07:28:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:28:47","slug":"saxophone-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/09\/30\/saxophone-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Saxophone Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-30-at-4.00.19-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-30-at-4.00.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-30-at-4.00.19-PM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-30-at-4.00.19-PM-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Saxophone Meditation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Imagine You have<br \/>\nentered a<br \/>\nconcert hall,<br \/>\nand the Musicians<br \/>\nare tuning Their<br \/>\ninstruments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It\u2019s a cacophony<br \/>\nof  hums and pitches,<br \/>\nbows buzzing strings,<br \/>\ntremolos trailing<br \/>\nacross cascades of<br \/>\nbrassy belltones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You sit quietly<br \/>\nin a corner and<br \/>\nbegin to settle<br \/>\ninto the Sounds,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">silently stepping<br \/>\nYour Way<br \/>\nthrough them,<br \/>\nuntil You are<br \/>\nenticed by a single<br \/>\ntenor saxophone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You spot<br \/>\nThe Player,<br \/>\nleaning forward,<br \/>\nswaying a little,<br \/>\nhugging the<br \/>\nslow dance of<br \/>\nLeonard Cohen\u2019s<br \/>\n\u201cHallelujah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You close Your eyes<br \/>\ninto darkness and<br \/>\nwrap Your Self around<br \/>\nevery note,<br \/>\nuntil it\u2019s<br \/>\nAll You Hear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Are You<br \/>\nfinally, finally<br \/>\nlearning to<br \/>\nMeditate?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">(Photo by Gracious Adebeyo; UnSplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Saxophone Meditation Imagine You have entered a concert hall, and the Musicians are tuning Their instruments. It\u2019s a cacophony of hums and pitches, bows buzzing strings, tremolos trailing across cascades of brassy belltones. You sit quietly in a corner and begin to settle into the Sounds, silently stepping Your Way through them, until You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}