{"id":82942,"date":"2014-04-22T08:05:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T12:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=82942"},"modified":"2014-04-22T08:14:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T12:14:33","slug":"and-the-waltz-goes-on-by-sir-anthony-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=82942","title":{"rendered":"And the Waltz Goes On, by Sir Anthony Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M57Fi19vcSI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I found this extremely intense. Anthony Hopkins wrote this waltz over 50 years ago, and here, he hears it performed by the magnificent Andr\u00e9 Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra. It&#8217;s worth it to watch the entire thing. The audience getting caught up in the rhythm (the infectious rhythm of the waltz), and Hopkins&#8217; own face as he listens to the waltz he wrote as a young man be performed by this phenomenal orchestra.  <\/p>\n<p>I guess what it made me feel was: Life is sometimes very very hard. But human beings are often totally magical. Transcendence is possible. Light and joy and life are possible. There it is, in that gigantic concert space. It&#8217;s alive. We are beautiful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this extremely intense. Anthony Hopkins wrote this waltz over 50 years ago, and here, he hears it performed by the magnificent Andr\u00e9 Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra. It&#8217;s worth it to watch the entire thing. The audience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=82942\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82946,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82942\/revisions\/82946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}