{"id":66791,"date":"2019-11-06T00:18:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66791"},"modified":"2019-11-06T00:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:18:47","slug":"a-magical-tale-in-three-accelerating-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66791","title":{"rendered":"A magical tale, in three accelerating acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron <\/strong>&#8212; magic is imagination, see my post <a href=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66789\">Vlahos: violence is the magical substance of civil war<\/a> earlier today ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Act One: Jacob&#8217;s Ladder<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vd5erYjjEhI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jacob&#8217;s ladder, on which angels are show ascending and descending, is revealed to Jacob in a dream: sheer magic &#8212; and how richly strange to see the ladder emerge from a simple loop of string..<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Act Two: Pavel Tchelitchew, The Concert {via Alabandine]<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pavel-Tchelitchew-The-Concert-via-Alabandine-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"461\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pavel-Tchelitchew-The-Concert-via-Alabandine-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pavel-Tchelitchew-The-Concert-via-Alabandine-1-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That the string figure should become a stringed instrument, plucked by the teeth and accompanied by tambourine.. again, we are raised an octave  above our grounded selves..<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Act Three: Bob Dylan, Song and Dance Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TbIbLm4pb5k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the song and dance musician magician <strong>Dylan<\/strong> &#8212; his harmonica, making an anthem for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; magic is imagination, see my post Vlahos: violence is the magical substance of civil war earlier today ] . Act One: Jacob&#8217;s Ladder Jacob&#8217;s ladder, on which angels are show ascending and descending, is revealed to Jacob in a dream: sheer magic &#8212; and how richly strange to see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1359,384,1417,526,1111,742,655,480,676,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angels","category-art","category-bob-dylan","category-charles-cameron","category-imagination","category-magic","category-mathematics","category-music","category-scriptures","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66800,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66791\/revisions\/66800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}