{"id":597,"date":"2009-03-07T05:35:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T12:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=597"},"modified":"2009-03-07T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:03:10","slug":"you-cant-spell-smart-without-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You can&#8217;t spell smart without art&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the NYTimes Measure for Measure blog, Suzanne Vega explains <a href=\"http:\/\/measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/06\/whats-a-melody-for\/\">What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Melody For?<\/a>  I won&#8217;t say she buried the lede, but the post ends with Tom Chapin singing his testimony in Albany to protest cuts in state funding for the arts:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/orgxcvbHFv4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/orgxcvbHFv4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Vega concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The right combination of words and, yes, melody at the right moment can have a powerful effect. The latest news is that $50 million has been allocated to the N.E.A. as part of the recovery package, in part because of the organized lobbying efforts of arts advocates across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Just think of a world without art, without song \u00e2\u20ac\u201d how would we celebrate? What would we dream of? What would set our imaginations free? How could we express our emotions for our husbands and wives and children? Celebrate a birthday? A melody is for expressing emotions: delight, passion, sadness. It reminds us of what we have felt and experienced before, in our own personal code of emotion and history. Priceless!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the NYTimes Measure for Measure blog, Suzanne Vega explains What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Melody For? I won&#8217;t say she buried the lede, but the post ends with Tom Chapin singing his testimony in Albany to protest cuts in state funding for the arts: Vega concludes: The right combination of words and, yes, melody at the right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;You can&#8217;t spell smart without art&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}