{"id":812,"date":"2010-12-13T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/?p=812"},"modified":"2010-12-13T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:03:35","slug":"4-12-minutes-of-silence-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2010\/12\/13\/4-12-minutes-of-silence-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"4 1\/2 Minutes of Silence for Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Cage&#8217;s 4&#8217;33&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CD&#8217;s by multiple artists aimed at raising funds for good causes are familiar holiday fare but <strong>this is something new: a song consisting of silence. <\/strong> Several musicians, some via cell phones, participated in making the John Cage cover song, called 4&#8217;33&#8221;.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/dec\/06\/john-cage-cover-christmas-no-1\">According to an article in <em>The Guardian<\/em>,<\/a> during the recording,\u00a0 some musicians shuffled their feet while others stared &#8212; in silence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is already enough noise out there,&#8221; says pop musician Ben McIldowie. &#8220;This is giving people a little time to think.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cage&#8217;s 4&#8217;33&#8221; CD&#8217;s by multiple artists aimed at raising funds for good causes are familiar holiday fare but this is something new: a song consisting of silence. Several musicians, some via cell phones, participated in making the John Cage cover song, called 4&#8217;33&#8221;.\u00a0 According to an article in The Guardian, during the recording,\u00a0 some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}