{"id":2309,"date":"2010-08-06T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2010\/08\/06\/a-familiar-touching-tone\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T10:34:00","slug":"a-familiar-touching-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2010\/08\/06\/a-familiar-touching-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"a familiar, touching tone\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDid that ever occur to you?<\/p>\n<p>Somebody playing the piano in your neighborhood, a familiar tone, a song from long ago, from very long ago, and it got you crying?<\/p>\n<p>That happened to me right now. The tune was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yesterday_(song)\"><i>The Beatles&#8217; Yesterday<\/i><\/a>. It wasn&#8217;t played perfectly, apparently with just one hand, the guy was exercising apparently, a few false tones, it was getting better, the further he got. He hadn&#8217;t played it in quite some years. It was played with an attempt for the right intonations, staccatos, breaks\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Did it remind him of a couple of yesterdays? Guess so! Names, places, embracements, kisses, some shy, some not, tears, despair, disasters\u2026 \u2013 healing and recoveries as well? We don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, actually I do know. It was &#8220;<i>idiot me<\/i>&#8221; opening the songbook on just the right page for today. Do you want to join me shedding tears?<br \/>\nLet me see, what pages that songbook still has for me!<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nSpent a splendid time in the kids&#8217; \/ music room now, playing the piano and finally also the guitar. Poor neighbors also had to bear me singing.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did that ever occur to you? Somebody playing the piano in your neighborhood, a familiar tone, a song from long ago, from very long ago, and it got you crying? That happened to me right now. The tune was The Beatles&#8217; Yesterday. It wasn&#8217;t played perfectly, apparently with just one hand, the guy was exercising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-Bf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}