{"id":1463,"date":"2010-10-30T14:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T18:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2010-10-30T14:07:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T18:07:40","slug":"there-is-still-beauty-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"There is still beauty in the world&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;this one is a change of pace from the normal stuff, but it is something I wanted to pass along..was watching &#8220;countdown&#8221; last week and there was a segment about a violinist who had just purchased a Stradivarius violin for $3.5 million dollars..but that is not the remarkable thing&#8230;because, how do you really value a treasure like that? It&#8217;s provenance? I really don&#8217;t care who owned it before&#8230;what I do care about is that majestic sound&#8230;that, even through the tiny little speakers on my tv, it was one of the most glorious things I have ever heard. Luckily, the segment is still available on the &#8220;Countdown&#8221; site and it is worth seeing&#8230;and I have added &#8220;hearing a Stradivarius in person&#8221; to my list&#8230;.those of you who know me know that getting on my list is important&#8230;to me at least&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I know this one is a little different but I have to take time off to see and hear the beauty that still exists in the world and I have to remind myself that this Strad will still exist even if the repubs win the election&#8230;and Steely Dan won&#8217;t disappear, and Led Zeppelin won&#8217;t disappear&#8230;.at least I hope they won&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;this one is a change of pace from the normal stuff, but it is something I wanted to pass along..was watching &#8220;countdown&#8221; last week and there was a segment about a violinist who had just purchased a Stradivarius violin for $3.5 million dollars..but that is not the remarkable thing&#8230;because, how do you really value a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There is still beauty in the world&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[259,260],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-countdown","tag-stradivarius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}