{"id":1574,"date":"2012-04-23T21:11:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T04:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2012-04-25T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:50:05","slug":"an-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2012\/04\/an-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"An expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I spent the day singing shape note music, and there was a moment when I was sitting on the front bench of the bass section, and I looked up as the leader brought us in on a fuguing tune: the leader&#8217;s facial expression caught my eye &#8212; eyes rolled slightly upward, lids slightly lowered, cheeks slack, head tilted slightly back &#8212; it was subtle, but I recognized that facial expression. It was the expression that comes at peak experiences, at moments of religious ecstasy.<\/p>\n<p>And it occurred to me that I had never seen that particular facial expression in a Sunday service of a Unitarian Universalist congregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I spent the day singing shape note music, and there was a moment when I was sitting on the front bench of the bass section, and I looked up as the leader brought us in on a fuguing tune: the leader&#8217;s facial expression caught my eye &#8212; eyes rolled slightly upward, lids &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2012\/04\/an-expression\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An expression&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}