{"id":2080,"date":"2025-07-31T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:30:39","slug":"wednesday-thought-for-the-day-for-7-30-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wednesday-thought-for-the-day-for-7-30-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday &#8220;Thought for the Day&#8221; for 7.30.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Song and Fiction<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>I find that when I listen to songs that especially grip me, I\u2019ll experience something spontaneous and autonomous that affects me in commanding ways. By \u201ccommanding,\u201d I mean that the intrusion on my conscious intentions feels like a <em>task.<\/em> This \u201cintrusion\u201d is not something I\u2019ve thought about, considered, or wanted to do, nor is it on any of my agenda lists.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of questions present themselves. The first is, why does this happen when listening to a song that grips me and not other songs? I think being gripped by a song is part of the <em>emotional<\/em> effect of loosening the barrier to the unconscious, or as I like to say, to \u201cthe other.\u201d The second is that the \u201ctask\u201d would seem to originate from somewhere that has agency, intention, and desire. \u201cSomething\u201d <em>wants<\/em> me to <em>do<\/em> something.<\/p>\n<p>I have difficulty saying no to these intrusions.<\/p>\n<p>So, I was listening to the song \u201cStand by Me,\u201d in the version that was the first video of Playing for Change (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM&amp;list=RDMMUs-TVg40ExM&amp;start_radio=1\">Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World<\/a>). I listen to this song frequently. Almost always, I get struck by something that has the quality of \u201ctask.\u201d On this latest occasion, I suddenly realized something about the relation of song and fiction that I needed to delve more fully into. This feeling was very pronounced. I have never written on the relationship between song and fiction, but I will take on this psyche-induced task. Watch for it.<\/p>\n<p>Russ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song and Fiction I find that when I listen to songs that especially grip me, I\u2019ll experience something spontaneous and autonomous that affects me in commanding ways. By \u201ccommanding,\u201d I mean that the intrusion on my conscious intentions feels like a task. This \u201cintrusion\u201d is not something I\u2019ve thought about, considered, or wanted to do, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}