{"id":4888,"date":"2018-07-24T15:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2018-07-24T15:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:38:46","slug":"crown-of-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4888","title":{"rendered":"crown of accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"as2fn\" data-offset-key=\"9j6pg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9j6pg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"snd4\" data-offset-key=\"469os-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"469os-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"469os-0-0\">There was a much sought after flugelhorn player whose students appreciated them for their insight and technical expertise. One student complained his best states of playing remained elusive to which the teacher replied, <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"snd4\" data-offset-key=\"eto7p-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"eto7p-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"eto7p-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"snd4\" data-offset-key=\"e2n4o-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e2n4o-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e2n4o-0-0\">&#8220;There is no there to arrive to. You imagine there is a crown of accomplishment, eventually you see the distance between you and the crown is constant. That imagined distance will always be just that &#8211; imagined&#8221;.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"snd4\" data-offset-key=\"6gjgf-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6gjgf-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6gjgf-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"snd4\" data-offset-key=\"5i80o-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5i80o-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5i80o-0-0\">If Sufi stories could be interpreted as being about music. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"snd4\" data-offset-key=\"eu7sm-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"eu7sm-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"eu7sm-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"snd4\" data-offset-key=\"3i5l0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3i5l0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3i5l0-0-0\">(don&#8217;t imagine that could be)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"snd4\" data-offset-key=\"cdt7l-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a much sought after flugelhorn player whose students appreciated them for their insight and technical expertise. One student complained his best states of playing remained elusive to which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4888\" 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":[1,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","category-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","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=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}