{"id":28849,"date":"2012-06-22T16:32:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/22\/jtotheizzoe-carl-sagan-chorale-whats-not-to\/"},"modified":"2012-06-22T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T16:32:37","slug":"jtotheizzoe-carl-sagan-chorale-whats-not-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/22\/jtotheizzoe-carl-sagan-chorale-whats-not-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itsokaytobesmart.com\/post\/25616093724\/carl-sagan-chorale-whats-not-to-love-about-a\">jtotheizzoe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kenley-kristofferson\/cosmos\">Carl Sagan: Chorale<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s not to love about a choral suite inspired by and set to the words of the great Carl Sagan? Kenley Kristofferson penned this beautiful work using the late Sagan\u2019s inspiring writings as his lyric. You can see <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kenley-kristofferson\/cosmos\">more details about the three movements here<\/a>, but here\u2019s Kristofferson\u2019s take on Sagan\u2019s influence:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cCarl Sagan has taught me how beautiful science and the universe can be, and that understanding something enriches the experience, but doesn\u2019t take away from the mystery that draws us to the big questions of life. He taught me that the sciences are beautiful; the natural world is elegant; and for such small creatures as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>I couldn\u2019t agree more \ud83d\ude42 This is music to travel through the cosmos by, if, perhaps, only in our minds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jtotheizzoe: Carl Sagan: Chorale What\u2019s not to love about a choral suite inspired by and set to the words of the great Carl Sagan? Kenley Kristofferson penned this beautiful work using the late Sagan\u2019s inspiring writings as his lyric. You can see more details about the three movements here, but here\u2019s Kristofferson\u2019s take on Sagan\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/22\/jtotheizzoe-carl-sagan-chorale-whats-not-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6161],"class_list":["post-28849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amazing","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}