{"id":8614,"date":"2020-11-13T11:48:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2020-11-15T22:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T06:57:55","slug":"this-too-shall-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/13\/this-too-shall-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"This Too Shall Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK Go playing their song, This Too Shall Pass, for marching band.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Official Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UJKythlXAIY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not gonna lie, I cried a little watching it. Maybe it&#8217;s the pandemic, presidential politics (which became &#8220;everything&#8221; politics), daughter, seeing glimpses of my own mortality, murder hornets, race riots, or 8 months of quarantine. Not sure.<\/p>\n<p>My aunt N asked why I felt this way, she said she couldn&#8217;t hear the words to the song. Here&#8217;s my response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s funny, the only words I really hear in the whole song is the plea &#8220;Let it go, this too shall pass.&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m overwhelmed by all the threats and perceived threats in my world. So hearing that message is both welcoming and terrifying!<\/p>\n<p>And I feel like the ORIGINAL \u00a0music video for this song is this one:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w<br \/>\n(though they both came out about the same time) It&#8217;s an amazing Rube Goldberg machine of a music video! I first saw this video when I was teaching classes at the Crucible&#8230; building things and teaching and such. I seriously considered starting a Rube Goldberg class based on this music video. That was, in many ways, a better time. I didn&#8217;t think quite as much about the &#8220;this too shall pass&#8221; message. But now that I&#8217;m seeing the video with the marching band, I think about the old times and the current times and&#8230;. it&#8217;s overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.and the marching \u00a0band video is so ludicrous and gently irreverent and reminds me of my own youth, it just accentuates how far I&#8217;ve come. And not in a good way.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK Go playing their song, This Too Shall Pass, for marching band. Not gonna lie, I cried a little watching it. Maybe it&#8217;s the pandemic, presidential politics (which became &#8220;everything&#8221; politics), daughter, seeing glimpses of my own mortality, murder hornets, race riots, or 8 months of quarantine. Not sure. My aunt N asked why I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}