{"id":93046,"date":"2020-05-22T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93046"},"modified":"2020-05-21T19:14:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:14:01","slug":"nyt-why-yo-yo-ma-would-invite-socrates-to-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93046","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Why Yo-Yo Ma Would Invite Socrates to Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">What books are on your nightstand?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">\u201cThe World That Made New Orleans,\u201d by Ned Sublette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">\u201cBarracoon: The Story of the Last \u2018Black Cargo,\u2019\u201d the oral history of one of the last known African survivors of the Middle Passage, by Zora Neale Hurston.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The memoirs of Alexandre Dumas, the first volume of which I am struggling through in French.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">\u201cSpirit Rising,\u201d by the unparalleled Angelique Kidjo, who recommended the first three titles. She and I are working on a new project that explores some of the less-known intersections between what we think of as Western classical and African music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/21\/books\/review\/yo-yo-ma-by-the-book-interview.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Everyone under 21 should read &#8220;The Little Prince,&#8221; Yo-Yo Ma says: &#8220;Looking at the universe through a child\u2019s gaze, full of wonder, wisdom and innocence, is a perspective we never want to lose as adults.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vdSG0WPUOS\">https:\/\/t.co\/vdSG0WPUOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimesbooks\/status\/1263605769150386177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What books are on your nightstand? \u201cThe World That Made New Orleans,\u201d by Ned Sublette. \u201cBarracoon: The Story of the Last \u2018Black Cargo,\u2019\u201d the oral history of one of the last known African survivors of the Middle Passage, by Zora<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93046\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93049,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93046\/revisions\/93049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}