{"id":172,"date":"2007-01-17T19:25:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T03:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=172"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:59:34","slug":"snow-daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/17\/snow-daze\/","title":{"rendered":"snow daze"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/359799378\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/359799378_60a3d8a600.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/359799378\">snow at the pool<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/nobleviola\">nobleviola<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">We had an unexpected snow storm hit the Portland metro area Tuesday morning. Of course, it should have been expected, as our intelligence-challenged local forcasters insisted that only minor flurries would mar an otherwise pristine day. The rest of us, city governments included, forgot to use reverse psychology and assume that all hell would break loose, and the city was paralyzed with the end result that we lost our first rehearsal for the upcoming classical series concert.<br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a shame, since we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing Stravinsky\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jeu de Carte, which the orchestra has never done before, and a whole raft of Johann Strauss bon bons, which sound effortless (and are anything but), all on one less rehearsal that was intended. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be fun\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>snow at the pool, originally uploaded by nobleviola. We had an unexpected snow storm hit the Portland metro area Tuesday morning. Of course, it should have been expected, as our intelligence-challenged local forcasters insisted that only minor flurries would mar an otherwise pristine day. The rest of us, city governments included, forgot to use reverse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","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":false,"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":[67,3655,55,3662,3660],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-classical","tag-news","tag-orchestra","tag-portland","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-2M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":174,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/18\/musicians-on-the-bus\/","url_meta":{"origin":172,"position":0},"title":"musicians ON the bus","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo credit: Cameron R. 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A visual representation of the creative process (I'm being pretty nice to myself in this shot).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the orchestra world&quot;","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/22\/tower-theater\/","url_meta":{"origin":172,"position":3},"title":"tower theater","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"tower theater, originally uploaded by nobleviola. If you have the occasion to visit Bend, central Oregon's largest city, take in a show or concert at the lovingly restored Tower Theater in the heart of downtown. 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