{"id":35098,"date":"2021-10-14T21:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T02:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=35098"},"modified":"2021-10-14T21:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T02:23:32","slug":"lets-try-a-candid-conversation-just-for-the-few-who-want-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=35098","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s try a candid conversation just for the few who want to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/David-at-microphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35099\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/David-at-microphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/David-at-microphone.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/David-at-microphone-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/David-at-microphone-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of you shouldn\u2019t waste your time listening to this. It\u2019s not for everybody. It would bore most of you.<\/p>\n<p>In Hermann Hesse\u2019s great early 20th century novel, \u201cSteppenwolf,\u201d the protagonist, Harry Haller, encounters a strange place with a sign out front which says, <em>\u201cMagic theater. Entrance not for everybody. For madmen only.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I feel almost like attaching such a sign here, because what I\u2019m posting tonight is not for everybody. But for the few with the madness to want to go down this rabbit hole, I\u2019ll offer it to everybody once \u2014 with a warning.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m recording something with no script or plan. It would bore most people. Honest. But I hope the right people might find it \u2014 maybe you \u2014 and somehow connect with me because of where this continuing conversation could lead. If you think there\u2019s some madness about you that might eventually connect with the \u201cmagic theater\u201d in my mind, enter by tapping or clicking below.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really not for everybody.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-35098-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Journal-experiment.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Journal-experiment.m4a\">https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Journal-experiment.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you shouldn\u2019t waste your time listening to this. It\u2019s not for everybody. It would bore most of you. In Hermann Hesse\u2019s great early 20th century novel, \u201cSteppenwolf,\u201d the protagonist, Harry Haller, encounters a strange place with a sign out front which says, \u201cMagic theater. Entrance not for everybody. For madmen only.\u201d I feel <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=35098\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-986","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35098"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35106,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35098\/revisions\/35106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}