{"id":397,"date":"2008-07-11T22:19:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T02:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2008-07-11T22:19:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T02:19:57","slug":"passion-for-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/passion-for-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion for music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might think I&#8217;m overzealous in sharing my passion for music &#8211; telling you about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91318968&amp;ft=1&amp;f=12778813\" target=\"_blank\">all<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91020960\" target=\"_blank\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=87888918&amp;ft=1&amp;f=12778813\" target=\"_blank\">cool<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=17173217&amp;ft=1&amp;f=12778813\" target=\"_blank\">projects<\/a> I get to work on, and by extension hopefully making you passionate about it. I know it probably doesn&#8217;t work. But I found this video, where the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic talks about music and passion. It&#8217;s pretty great. I hope you&#8217;ll spend the 20 minutes and give it a watch.<\/p>\n<p><!--cut and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"VE_Player\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/BenjaminZander_2008_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted2\/flash\/loader.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you haven&#8217;t surfed through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\" target=\"_blank\">TED Talks site<\/a>, spend some time there, there&#8217;s great stuff to be found!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might think I&#8217;m overzealous in sharing my passion for music &#8211; telling you about all the cool projects I get to work on, and by extension hopefully making you passionate about it. I know it probably doesn&#8217;t work. But I found this video, where the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic talks about [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,8,17,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQPn-6p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}