{"id":757,"date":"2020-04-24T15:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=757"},"modified":"2024-03-04T23:07:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T23:07:42","slug":"may-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/may-it-be\/","title":{"rendered":"May It Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My offering for Friday is a moment of calm &#8211; perhaps I should do more of these \ud83e\udd14\u00a0&#8211; we can always do with slowing everything down for a while.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There is no story from me attached to this music &#8211; I just think its a great song and beautifully performed. A good thought for these times. When I was looking for the recording I came across a quote from Lord of the Rings (for anyone who does not know, the song is from the soundtrack) which is very apt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cI wish it need not have happened in my time,&#8221; said Frodo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;So do I,&#8221; said Gandalf, &#8220;and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A quote for our current times perhaps. This is only three and a half minutes long &#8211; if you need a longer quiet time &#8211; just put it on &#8220;repeat&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nt3Ggo1CE3g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enya : May It Be<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nt3Ggo1CE3g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My offering for Friday is a moment of calm &#8211; perhaps I should do more of these \ud83e\udd14\u00a0&#8211; we can always do with slowing everything down for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[84,104],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-film","tag-popular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}