{"id":1112,"date":"2003-10-13T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T00:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2020-02-06T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:29:36","slug":"a-day-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"a day on the job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone came by ‘my’ desk and said, “Oh, you’re listening to music!
\nI mean you’re listening to good<\/em> music. That’s Cohen, isn’t it?”<\/p>\n

Pause. “I don’t know of a composer named Cohen.”<\/p>\n

“Oh. Then it’s . . .” Long pause. “Who is it?”<\/p>\n

“Gershwin.”<\/p>\n

“Oh of course. There is a Cohen, though, who wrote that cowboy thing?”<\/p>\n

Pause. “Are you thinking of [Aaron] Copland?” [spelling corrected 2006]<\/i><\/p>\n

Much later<\/strong> it occurred to me that (if memory serves) the original Aaron was the first kohen<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone came by ‘my’ desk and said, “Oh, you’re listening to music! I mean you’re listening to good music. That’s Cohen, isn’t it?” Pause. “I don’t know of a composer named Cohen.” “Oh. Then it’s . . .” Long pause. “Who is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mememe","category-musicverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}