{"id":508,"date":"2011-10-09T14:59:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/?p=508"},"modified":"2011-10-09T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T18:59:30","slug":"if-youre-happy-and-you-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/10\/if-youre-happy-and-you-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;re Happy and You Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next time I&#8217;m annoyed with the world, I&#8217;m going to try and remember to stop what I&#8217;m doing and watch this video. And if I&#8217;m still annoyed, I&#8217;m going to take a page from John Cage and listen to it again.<\/p>\n<p>Just a couple from Iowa (married for 62 years!) having a little fun with music, a little fun with life. The first video is reportedly of an impromptu performance in a waiting area at the Mayo Clinic.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XtyAsiZWktY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This follow-up report is a more formal presentation featuring the same awesome couple.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d_14wbmbM5A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/10\/08\/elderly-couple-of-62-years-plays-piano.html\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time I&#8217;m annoyed with the world, I&#8217;m going to try and remember to stop what I&#8217;m doing and watch this video. And if I&#8217;m still annoyed, I&#8217;m going to take a page from John Cage and listen to it again. Just a couple from Iowa (married for 62 years!) having a little fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,73,72,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-happy","9":"tag-joy","10":"tag-love","11":"tag-music","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}