{"id":18,"date":"2008-10-19T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T15:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-10-31T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:36:41","slug":"elderism-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiehall.org\/SiteCode\/Intro.aspx\">Carnegie Hall<\/a> last night to hear the virtuosic pianist and composer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithjarrett.org\/ \">Keith Jarrett<\/a> perform. (I realize that he&#8217;s only in his 60&#8217;s, and thus not really an &#8220;elder&#8221;, but, please: indulge me). Jarrett&#8211;who played with his back to the audience&#8211;walked over to a microphone five times during the course of the evening, each time uttering a single sentence, including his opener,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I just want to say that I won&#8217;t be saying anything tonight.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of the other four sentences which he did or did not say, the most beguiling was,<\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8220;Don&#8217;t listen to anybody tell you what energy source we need.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Carnegie Hall last night to hear the virtuosic pianist and composer Keith Jarrett perform. (I realize that he&#8217;s only in his 60&#8217;s, and thus not really an &#8220;elder&#8221;, but, please: indulge me). Jarrett&#8211;who played with his back to the audience&#8211;walked over to a microphone five times during the course of the evening, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}