{"id":10626,"date":"2018-11-13T20:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T04:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10626"},"modified":"2018-11-13T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T04:03:01","slug":"it-became-a-lazy-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/11\/it-became-a-lazy-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"It Became A Lazy Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon it was 30 degrees out there, with a piercing breeze. Drivers were unruly, aggressive, rushing. The line at the gas pump was slow. I returned home, shivering, to a greeting from my wife. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lazy afternoon,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Shirley-Horn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Shirley-Horn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Shirley-Horn.jpg 314w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Shirley-Horn-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Shirley-Horn-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Shirley-Horn-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>Suddenly, the afternoon <em>became<\/em> lazy, with a long lunch, a leisurely hour conquering two crossword puzzles and inspiration to look up Shirley Horn. There she was, waiting to reinforce my new mood, which could not be derailed by the irrelevant out-of-focus album covers posted by a <em>YouTube<\/em> contributor with her video. Close your eyes. Enjoy a perfect interpretation of a beautiful song. Ms. Horn accompanies herself on the piano. Buster Williams is the bassist, Billy Hart the drummer.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qh5yakbQXLQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That is from Shirley Horn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1986 album Steeplechase album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2DFk9b9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lazy Afternoon<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon it was 30 degrees out there, with a piercing breeze. Drivers were unruly, aggressive, rushing. The line at the gas pump was slow. I returned home, shivering, to a greeting from my wife. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lazy afternoon,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. Suddenly, the afternoon became lazy, with a long lunch, a leisurely hour conquering two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10627,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}