{"id":2651,"date":"2022-01-29T20:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T01:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2022\/01\/ecstatic\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T20:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T01:04:56","slug":"ecstatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2022\/01\/ecstatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecstatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musician David Byrne echoes one of the primary themes of this blog, namely that creative endeavors which succeed in engaging an audience work on a level that is separate and unique from our intellect:<\/p>\n<p><em> Both art and music seem to bypass the rational and logical parts of the mind \u2014 rather, they are understood by myriad parts of the brain that are connected to one another. It is a different kind of understanding. The effect of this interconnection is pleasurable, ecstatic even.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/27\/arts\/design\/david-byrne-pace-talking-heads.html\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b02788068af3f200d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"M-0096\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b02788068af3f200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b02788068af3f200d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"M-0096\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician David Byrne echoes one of the primary themes of this blog, namely that creative endeavors which succeed in engaging an audience work on a level that is separate and unique from our intellect: Both art and music seem to bypass the rational and logical parts of the mind \u2014 rather, they are understood by [&hellip;]<\/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-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}