{"id":15055,"date":"2019-01-02T14:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T22:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=15055"},"modified":"2019-01-02T23:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T07:02:30","slug":"a-mostly-very-good-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/02\/a-mostly-very-good-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A (mostly) very good year."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Personally and musically, it was on the whole a very good year. Almost an entirely very good one. But there is always the element of the bittersweet as one gets older, and one starts to get ever more particular about what may be defined as ‘good’ or ‘very good’. The mortality reflex starts to kick in at the age of 50. You don’t want to give too much importance to minor things when the time you have left might be less than the time you’ve already had. [Hm, that was way more dark than I was intending, but I’ll leave it because it’s true.<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People love lists (even when they say they don’t), so this will basically be what they call in the blog biz a ‘listicle’. It sounds like it should be a body part, but don’t fear – it’s just an amalgamation of ‘list’ and ‘article’. Enjoy! (or not, your choice.) And it’s in chronological order, sort of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The (very) good list(icle).<\/h2>\n\n\n\n