{"id":3313,"date":"2010-11-10T07:33:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2010-11-18T23:27:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T03:27:47","slug":"hungry-for-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3313","title":{"rendered":"Hungry for music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of passionate and controversial itinerant poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), and I post in his honor this poem, along with a sketch of a lone violinist my daughter and I encountered this summer during an evening stroll through downtown Charlottesville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ViolinistCharlVA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3314\" title=\"ViolinistCharlVA\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ViolinistCharlVA.jpg\" alt=\"ViolinistCharlVA\" width=\"425\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Hungry for music with a desperate hunger<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">I prowled abroad, I threaded through the town;<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">The evening crowd was clamoring and drinking,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Vulgar and pitiful\u2014my heart bowed down\u2014<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Till I remembered duller hours made noble<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">By strangers clad in some suprising grace.<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Wait, wait, my soul, your music comes ere midnight<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Appearing in some unexpected place<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">With quivering lips, and gleaming, moonlit face.<\/span><\/address>\n<p><em>\u2014Vachel Lindsay <\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Cronos MM', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of passionate and controversial itinerant poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), and I post in his honor this poem, along with a sketch of a lone violinist my daughter and I encountered this summer during an evening stroll through downtown Charlottesville. Hungry for music with a desperate hunger I prowled abroad, I threaded<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3313\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55,94,17,19,92,3],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-birthday","tag-music","tag-penink","tag-poem","tag-virginia","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3323,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}