{"id":3539,"date":"2014-11-02T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T16:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2014-11-02T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T16:25:59","slug":"wink-wink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3539","title":{"rendered":"Wink Wink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5I\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3548 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/eric-idle.jpg\" alt=\"eric-idle\" width=\"631\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/eric-idle.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/eric-idle-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/eric-idle-624x336.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a Sufi story the gist of which was about imitating a master when studying under them even if you didn&#8217;t understand why they did what they did. There are things you can learn from imitation that might not make sense immediately, maybe after some months or years it&#8217;ll make sense. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9hoyhkL7OTQ\">The guy I studied piano with as a young man<\/a> played the piano without any upper body movement (not the way I naturally play) and sometimes I tried imitating him; \u00a0It changed my internal experience. Sometimes people imitating other artists they admire, I get it. It&#8217;s only weird if they don&#8217;t eventually drop it and move on to their own thing.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck by that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PPouuA0KMO4\">when I found this youtube <\/a>clip of the amazing man Marty Feldman. This clip performed in 1969 and 1970 made me wonder if Eric Idle was a fan because it resembled one of his famous characters\u2026.but I could be wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PPouuA0KMO4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3549 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/marty-feldman.jpg\" alt=\"marty-feldman\" width=\"498\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/marty-feldman.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/marty-feldman-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a Sufi story the gist of which was about imitating a master when studying under them even if you didn&#8217;t understand why they did what they did. There <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3539\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[798,796,795,797],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-performing","tag-casey-sokal-and-bob-wiseman","tag-eric-idle-and-bob-wiseman","tag-marty-feldman-and-bob-wiseman","tag-monty-python-and-bob-wiseman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}