{"id":1509,"date":"2012-08-09T02:01:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T02:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2012-08-09T02:01:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T02:01:33","slug":"pre-seminar-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/09\/pre-seminar-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre Seminar Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, sorry for the delay on the video I promised. It&#8217;s here, it&#8217;s waiting. But it&#8217;s not ready yet.<\/p>\n<p>I have another three hour seminar for tomorrow morning that I have to lead. This one is more presentation style, rather than discussion style like yesterday&#8217;s. I need to prepare for that for the rest of tonight and I won&#8217;t be able to post until the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished an epic jam in Hollow Way. We found an early riff and destroyed the universe with it. We went for 90 minutes straight, until our necks and arms were paralyzed and our fingers were sore and we were all dehydrated and empty and ecstatic at what we&#8217;d created from nothing. When it was over, we just all kind of nodded at each other, all 4 of us, with exhausted smiles.\u00a0Nothing needed to be said.<\/p>\n<p>The riff and the song were born, lived well, and then died in the Hollow Way. It is now gone forever, never to be reproduced, and sometimes this is the way it should be. It can be hard to create something only to let it go. But it&#8217;s important to do that sometimes, to remember what you&#8217;re creating for, to be OK and know it&#8217;s not about <em>the thing.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about what made the thing.<\/p>\n<p>Nighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, sorry for the delay on the video I promised. It&#8217;s here, it&#8217;s waiting. But it&#8217;s not ready yet. I have another three hour seminar for tomorrow morning that I have to lead. This one is more presentation style, rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/09\/pre-seminar-occupation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}