{"id":13025,"date":"2013-11-01T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=13025"},"modified":"2013-11-03T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T19:51:40","slug":"view-from-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/01\/view-from-the-back\/","title":{"rendered":"View from the back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131101-113959.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" alt=\"20131101-113959.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131101-113959.jpg?resize=500%2C186\" width=\"500\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the low brass section before rehearsing Britten&#8217;s War Requiem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[2477,3668,3474],"class_list":["post-13025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-britten","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-war-requiem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3o5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6654,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/26\/a-kinder-gentler-requiem\/","url_meta":{"origin":13025,"position":0},"title":"a kinder, gentler requiem","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday afternoon was one of those rare times when I had a piece that I thought I knew well revealed to me in an entirely new, deeper, and more personal way. 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