{"id":2939,"date":"2013-09-04T04:07:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T08:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/09\/fluid-questioning-2\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T04:07:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T08:07:37","slug":"fluid-questioning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/09\/fluid-questioning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluid Questioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Andrew Bird&#39;s behind-the-scenes look at his creative process (from an <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/30\/puzzling-through-a-love-song\/\" target=\"_self\">article<\/a> in the NY TIMES)<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s kind of a racket. When I step onstage I feel myself adopting that comedian\u2019s posture, a shrug of the shoulders that says, \u201cI don\u2019t know, folks. We\u2019re all just puzzling through it together. I\u2019m not going to pretend to have the answers but here\u2019s what I\u2019ve seen.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To emerge from creative hibernation with my perfect oeuvre and<br \/>\nworldview fully realized feels stifling and boring. And while I\u2019m<br \/>\nanything but an exhibitionist I have this perverse impulse to introduce<br \/>\nhalf-written songs and invite the trouble that it might bring. Maybe I\u2019m<br \/>\nsaying to my former teachers, \u201cLook, by your standards I\u2019m failing, but<br \/>\nit feels great.\u201d But mostly it\u2019s that I just prefer a fluid questioning<br \/>\npresent to a fixed past.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Andrew Bird&#39;s behind-the-scenes look at his creative process (from an article in the NY TIMES) It\u2019s kind of a racket. When I step onstage I feel myself adopting that comedian\u2019s posture, a shrug of the shoulders that says, \u201cI don\u2019t know, folks. We\u2019re all just puzzling through it together. I\u2019m not going to pretend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","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=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}