{"id":1083,"date":"2017-12-06T18:59:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2022-01-09T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:23:12","slug":"music-on-the-mountainside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/music-on-the-mountainside\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind &#8220;Wildflowers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>&#8220;Wildflowers&#8221; by Tom Petty, Sung on a Mountainside in the Himalayas of Nepal<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EO0Sdvlbph8\" width=\"760\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Petty&#8217;s &#8220;Wildflowers&#8221; has always resounded very strongly with me.&nbsp; A bit of a personal mantra.&nbsp; I believe it&#8217;s important to make promises with oneself.&nbsp; Sometimes you run astray; sometimes you are dead on-track.&nbsp; But the personal mantra remains the same, reminding you to remind yourself to stick to what you know&nbsp;rings true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you enjoy this little performance of my personal mantra from the mountainside!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded November 26, 2017 between the towns of Lobuche (4910m) and Dzongla (4830m), Solokhumbu, Nepal. &nbsp;Recorded during our <a href=\"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/himalayas-time-lapse-film\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"16-day trek to Everest Base Camp (opens in a new tab)\">16-day trek to Everest Base Camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wildflowers&#8221; by Tom Petty, Sung on a Mountainside in the Himalayas of Nepal Tom Petty&#8217;s &#8220;Wildflowers&#8221; has always resounded very strongly with me.&nbsp; A bit of a personal mantra.&nbsp; I believe it&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-the-americas-project"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Story Behind &quot;Wildflowers&quot; | Art We There Yet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cora Rose sings &quot;Wildflowers&quot; by Tom Petty on the side of a mountain in the Himalayas, Nepal. 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