{"id":44,"date":"2009-03-24T13:18:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T13:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.chargeit.com\/songwriter\/2009\/03\/24\/dis-mist\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T13:18:44","slug":"dis-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2009\/03\/24\/dis-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"Dis-mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lyrics were written while looking out the window of an airplane.  I am not sure what I was looking at&#8230; but, my guess is we were flying through some ice crystals.  The way the sun was hitting them caused them to act like little prisms&#8230; and, because of our elevation they were not falling to earth.  Instead, they were dancing around.   Rather than dismiss the mist, I thought about how the Earth looked like a giant brain with the dancing ice crystals looking like synapses making connections to neurons.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>lyrics<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThrough the mist<br \/>\nI see the mist<br \/>\nIs what I see<br \/>\nAnd, curiously<br \/>\nI get the gist<br \/>\nOf ice crystals<br \/>\nDancing<br \/>\nLike neurons<br \/>\nSynaptic<br \/>\nAppear spastic<br \/>\nAt first glance<br \/>\nThen the dance<br \/>\nComes into focus<br \/>\nLess ridicules<br \/>\nNot hocus pocus<br \/>\nA rhyme to the rhythm<br \/>\nA reason to the rhyme<br \/>\nDefeating time<br \/>\nDefeating space<br \/>\nDefine the race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lyrics were written while looking out the window of an airplane. I am not sure what I was looking at&#8230; but, my guess is we were flying through some ice crystals. The way the sun was hitting them caused them to act like little prisms&#8230; and, because of our elevation they were not falling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3216,556,784],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lyrics","tag-music","tag-songwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}