{"id":1032,"date":"2010-10-19T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:31:02","slug":"mother-nature-makes-an-overture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/mother-nature-makes-an-overture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Nature makes an overture"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nature and technology coincided in a dramatic multimedia event as I drove home this evening. Classic FM was playing the William Tell Overture – not the famous bit at the end portrayed variously by the\u00a0Lone Ranger<\/a>,\u00a0Mike Oldfield<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kenneth Williams<\/a>\u00a0but the whole four-part movement, of which the second represents a storm whipping up over Lac Leman: first a few raindrops and then a sudden escalation into nature’s fury, beautifully conveyed through the orchestral medium.<\/div>\n
And just as the storm hit Geneva on the airwaves, so it hit Harwell in real life: the dark clouds over Didcot were suddenly much closer, the wind was whipping the leaves off the trees in a cloud you could barely see through, and then came the rain, so strong I had to slow down.<\/div>\n
Classic FM’s marketing department has a surprisingly strong reach. I will look around cautiously the next time they play the theme from Jurassic Park<\/em>.<\/div>\n
Here’s the bit I mean.<\/div>\n
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Posted by\u00a0Ben\u00a0<\/a>at\u00a06:12 PM<\/abbr><\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nature and technology coincided in a dramatic multimedia event as I drove home this evening. Classic FM was playing the William Tell Overture – not the famous bit at the end portrayed variously by the\u00a0Lone Ranger,\u00a0Mike Oldfield\u00a0and\u00a0Kenneth Williams\u00a0but the whole … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,402,107],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-life","tag-music","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}