{"id":1481,"date":"2006-02-12T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1481\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:27:37","slug":"1481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1481","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something somewhat civilised about sitting outside in the fresh are listening to the world go by &#8211; contemplating life. What is more civilised is when you are sitting there with an internet connection, and have nothing better to do that just write &#8211; reflecting on and observing life. Sure it would be better if there was not a dump truck operating across the road, but that is a minor inconvenience, and in a way it is and indicator that things around us do not stop even when we stop.<\/p>\n<p>Just listening to all the sounds is enjoyable &#8211; working out what is happening&#8230; The sound of the hose washing something down, the sound of a jackhammer in the far distance, a police siren even further away, all mixed in with the sound of a gentle breeze and the occasional car. Sounds of modern life in fact. And then there are the echos, multiplying the sounds and creating new phantom sounds from every direction. I was going to say that the only thing that was missing was a dogs bark or a birds chirp &#8211; but having though that I can now dicern the birds singing on this summery day. <\/p>\n<p>Sort of reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracleband.net\/Lyrics\/what_a_wonderful_world.htm\">Louis Armstrong&#8217;s What a wonderful world<\/a> which featured in the movie &#8216;Good Morning Vietnam&#8217;, but more importantly closed out the TV series &#8216;Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy&#8217;. In that series, this song closed the loop between science fiction and reality&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>I see skies of blue, and clouds of white<br \/>The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night<br \/>And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something somewhat civilised about sitting outside in the fresh are listening to the world go by &#8211; contemplating life. What is more civilised is when you are sitting there with an internet connection, and have nothing better to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1481\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-1481","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}