{"id":3432,"date":"2011-07-27T09:09:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2011-07-27T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T14:09:07","slug":"john-cage-quote-that-applies-nicely-to-noemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/john-cage-quote-that-applies-nicely-to-noemail\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cage Quote That Applies Nicely to #noemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=PjUIbHb7lFcC&#038;pg=PA211&#038;dq=%22I+can't+understand+why+people+are+frightened+of+new+ideas.+I'm+frightened+of+the+old+ones.%22&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=uoQtTuO5N8m10AGrmcjkDg&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;ct=result&#038;resnum=2&#038;ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&#038;q=%22I%20can't%20understand%20why%20people%20are%20frightened%20of%20new%20ideas.%20I'm%20frightened%20of%20the%20old%20ones.%22&#038;f=false\">I can&#8217;t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I&#8217;m frightened of the old ones.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/entersection.com\/posts\/1069-john-cage-on-ideas\">Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz (1988) &#8220;Conversing with Cage&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/johncagetrust.blogspot.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Cage preparing his piano\" src=\"http:\/\/userserve-ak.last.fm\/serve\/_\/41496789\/John+Cage+john_cage.jpg\" title=\"John Cage preparing his piano\" width=\"230\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Cage preparing his piano<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As you may know, John Cage is famous in part for his pieces that used silence especially in his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3\">4&#8217;33&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; not playing or performing but listening to what you would have missed had you been listening only to a performance. He seems then the right person to join Marshall McLuhan as a guiding light for the #noemail project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I&#8217;m frightened of the old ones. Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz (1988) &#8220;Conversing with Cage&#8221; As you may know, John Cage is famous in part for his pieces that used silence especially in his 4&#8217;33&#8221; &#8212; not playing or performing but listening to what you would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}