{"id":72436,"date":"2019-12-24T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T23:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=72436"},"modified":"2019-12-24T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T23:30:27","slug":"for-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/for-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"For the birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-72436-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Spanish-Carols.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Spanish-Carols.mp3\">http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Spanish-Carols.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a medley of three traditional Spanish Christmas carols, &#8220;El Cant dels Ocells,&#8221;<span id='easy-footnote-1-72436' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/for-the-birds\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-72436' title='&amp;#8220;Carol of the Birds.&amp;#8221; &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qKoX01170l0&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Casals&amp;#8217; rendition&lt;\/a&gt; was famous half a century ago.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> &#8220;Fum, Fum, Fum&#8221; and &#8220;Campana Sobre Campana,&#8221; done with a handful of sampled instruments and soft synths. The first two are from Catalonia, the third from Andalusia. As usual, I&#8217;m not entirely happy with it, but today is the deadline for posting holiday stuff. (It shouldn&#8217;t be \u2014 properly, one should sing the carols during the interval between Christmas and Epiphany \u2014 but by December 26 most people are sick of the songs.)<\/p>\n<p>Tangentially related: Christmas cards from <a href=\"https:\/\/remodernreview.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/24\/artists-salvador-dalis-surreal-christmas-cards\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Salvador Dali<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/remodernreview.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/22\/andy-warhols-pop-art-christmas-cards\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Warhol<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a medley of three traditional Spanish Christmas carols, &#8220;El Cant dels Ocells,&#8221; &#8220;Fum, Fum, Fum&#8221; and &#8220;Campana Sobre Campana,&#8221; done with a handful of sampled instruments and soft synths. The first two are from Catalonia, the third from Andalusia. As usual, I&#8217;m not entirely happy with it, but today is the deadline for posting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/for-the-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For the birds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-iQk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72436"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72444,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72436\/revisions\/72444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}