{"id":833,"date":"2018-10-03T11:41:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T09:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T09:46:07","slug":"the-second-horse-of-pianoforte-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Second Horse of Pianoforte Jack&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Albumleaf 146: October 3, 2018 (Bologna)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>A piano is pretty heavy&#8211;even for a horse!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A cowboy who plays the piano is already more promising . . . But maybe it would be good if he always carried it near him, on a horse . . . &#8220;Pianoforte Jack always travels with two horses&#8211;he on the first, the piano on the second . . . When he makes camp, he puts the piano on the ground and plays Brahms&#8217;s lullaby or the Diabelli Variations by Beethoven . . . &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Gianni Rodari, <em>The Grammar of Fantasy<\/em>, pp. 91-92<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-833-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Second-Horse-146.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Second-Horse-146.mp3\">http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Second-Horse-146.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albumleaf 146: October 3, 2018 (Bologna) A piano is pretty heavy&#8211;even for a horse! A cowboy who plays the piano is already more promising . . . But maybe it would be good if he always carried it near him, on a horse . . . &#8220;Pianoforte Jack always travels with two horses&#8211;he on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albumleaves","category-quotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albumleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}