{"id":539,"date":"2020-05-09T07:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T07:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/?p=539"},"modified":"2021-02-21T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:37:22","slug":"map-out-a-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Mapping out a Path"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/david-hockney-path.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-584\"\/><figcaption>David Hockney, Path Through Wheat Field, July 2005<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m much more judgmental these days. Finishing a song is more satisfying now because I&rsquo;m grateful, whereas when I was 28, I expected it. Now if I find something to say, and I say it in a way that I think is artful and true, I&rsquo;m relieved I wasn&rsquo;t frustrated or stymied. When I was younger, I just said whatever I had to say. I ask myself now: Do I deeply believe that? Will anybody get it? Am I just talking to myself? You have to put that aside because it&rsquo;s not very helpful. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m trying to be as honest as I can expressing myself musically and lyrically, editing out what might be considered obscure but not trying to oversimplify or be condescending. And then I have to let go, even if I don&rsquo;t immediately understand the words. What I meant eventually reveals itself. You can be too familiar with the process, which I&rsquo;ve been doing since I was 15. Sometimes, instead of manipulating the craft, you have to just be the vessel through which some sort of inspiration will flow. With this record, it took me a while to map out a path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2009Paul Simon [\/efn_note]Edna Gundersen, June 19th, 2006,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/music\/news\/2006-06-18-paul-simon_x.htm\"><em>Simon says new album is truly a &lsquo;Surprise&rsquo;<\/em><\/a>.<span id='easy-footnote-1-539' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/?p=539#easy-footnote-bottom-1-539' title=''><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m much more judgmental these days. Finishing a song is more satisfying now because I&rsquo;m grateful, whereas when I was 28, I expected it. Now if I find something to say, and I say it in a way that I think is artful and true, I&rsquo;m relieved I wasn&rsquo;t frustrated or stymied. When I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[76],"authors":[{"term_id":76,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"fred","display_name":"Fred","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec0326d654fdf9f66e9eb42bb34a9bc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}