{"id":2612,"date":"2024-10-24T12:34:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2024\/10\/touching\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:34:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:34:49","slug":"touching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2024\/10\/touching\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Herb Alpert reflects upon what he&#39;s trying to accomplish when he plays, and this sentiment is applicable to all creative endeavors:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>There are lots of artists who try to impress other musicians with their playing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>They\u2019ll play these dizzying things, and you say, \u2018Wow that\u2019s fabulous!\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>But is it touching anyone?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b02e860d7f079200b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2443\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b02e860d7f079200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b02e860d7f079200b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"2443\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Herb Alpert reflects upon what he&#39;s trying to accomplish when he plays, and this sentiment is applicable to all creative endeavors: There are lots of artists who try to impress other musicians with their playing. They\u2019ll play these dizzying things, and you say, \u2018Wow that\u2019s fabulous!\u2019 But is it touching anyone? &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}