{"id":3065,"date":"2019-09-15T04:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T09:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2022-01-09T13:15:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:15:29","slug":"songs-world-florida-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/songs-world-florida-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song from the Florida Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe width=\"760\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qHqN0V0HHRw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote &#8220;A Beautiful Life&#8221; back in 2012.&nbsp; I was burned out, spending all my energy on trying wiggle my way around the music business.&nbsp; In essence, I was trying to figure out what every else wanted to hear and see, and then model that.&nbsp; Working that way is&nbsp;<em>exhausting<\/em>.&nbsp; And a waste of lifetime and creative energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought, &#8220;I am so very tired of this.&nbsp; Is it that important? Why not stop trying to dominate and run the rat race&#8230;and instead sit still and enjoy the simple fact that I am alive, enjoying this amazing gift of living?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What sweet calm and happiness I have found in that.&nbsp; Gone is the desire for fame or glory.&nbsp; In its place is a gratitude for what I have, the itch to create, and the satisfaction of paying forward kindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>It&#8217;s a beautiful life when you stop to look sometimes<br><\/em><em>This is a sign<br><\/em><em>I&#8217;m going to take the time to sit and watch the world go by<br><\/em><em>&#8216;Cause usually I am racing forward so fast<br><\/em><em>I miss a lot of the life that slipped past<br>Now what a beautiful life I see, here from the sidelines<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote &#8220;A Beautiful Life&#8221; back in 2012.&nbsp; I was burned out, spending all my energy on trying wiggle my way around the music business.&nbsp; In essence, I was trying to figure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}