{"id":3031,"date":"2011-07-08T06:19:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T10:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/soulful\/"},"modified":"2011-07-08T06:19:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T10:19:21","slug":"soulful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/soulful\/","title":{"rendered":"Soulful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a wonderful interview with the actor Wendell Pierce, who plays the laconic Antoine Batiste in the HBO series Treme, about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.&#0160; If you haven&#39;t seen this series yet, consider putting it on your Netflix queue, if only for the musicians featured, like Dr. John and Kermit Ruffins.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce, a New Orleans native, talks about the vital music scene there and observes that how music is played &#8212; from the heart &#8212; &quot;<em>soulful<\/em>&quot; &#8212; is just as important, if not more so, than hitting all the notes.<\/p>\n<p>On reflection, that&#39;s probably true for most creative endeavors, including photography.&#0160; If a work of art &#8212; poem, painting, photo &#8211; doesn&#39;t speak from that soulful place, then ultimately it doesn&#39;t really connect with the audience on the level that art should.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b014e89b116da970d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CroceB&amp;W\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b014e89b116da970d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b014e89b116da970d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"CroceB&amp;W\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a wonderful interview with the actor Wendell Pierce, who plays the laconic Antoine Batiste in the HBO series Treme, about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.&#0160; If you haven&#39;t seen this series yet, consider putting it on your Netflix queue, if only for the musicians featured, like Dr. John and Kermit Ruffins. Pierce, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","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=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}