{"id":30045,"date":"2021-03-05T12:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T20:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/?p=30045"},"modified":"2021-03-27T18:42:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T02:42:22","slug":"the-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/the-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"The Key for Heroism. Does it Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"501\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jacques-Louis_David_Le_Serment_des_Horaces-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"30100\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jacques-Louis_David_Le_Serment_des_Horaces-2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/the-hero\/jacques-louis_david_le_serment_des_horaces-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-30100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jacques-Louis_David_Le_Serment_des_Horaces-2.jpg 650w, http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jacques-Louis_David_Le_Serment_des_Horaces-2-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once written, a symphony sounds forever. Like a cathedral, which even after its stones are tumbled down, remembers all those who traversed its threshold with a wish for eternity. Open a score to a symphony laying there all silent on its many staves, you\u2019ll hear it suddenly leap to life as if it had been sounding all along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"771\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Eroica_Beethoven-Page-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30049\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Eroica_Beethoven-Page-1.png 624w, http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Eroica_Beethoven-Page-1-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not gifted with perfect pitch, but occasionally I&#8217;m arrested when the sounding of an E-flat chord catches my attention. I&#8217;m not sure why exactly, but I believe it is because E-flat major is a heroic key. It\u2019s a portal into eternity \u2014 that is <em>why<\/em> it is heroic. E-flat major startles us when it appears all of a sudden in its shining armour \u2014 those three knightly flats, a holy trinity, standing guard permitting only the most heroic to enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"376\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Napoleon_Waterloo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30048\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Napoleon_Waterloo.png 750w, http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Napoleon_Waterloo-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One night I met Napoleon. I, a time traveller, knew what was to come and could share certain discrete information with him concerning his future. I decided to start with Waterloo \u2014 the defeat that is \u2014 but I sweetened the news by explaining that, despite his defeat, he would be remembered as a hero. So it shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise that, as I conversed with the <em>Empereur,<\/em> those opening E-flat chords from Beethoven\u2019s \u201cEroica\u201d Symphony boomed in my head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I returned, I determined I should gather all things E-flat close to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/7DWBmZuosIR5ahATKgGStJ\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-flat major startles us when it appears all of a sudden in its shining armour \u2014 those three knightly flats, a holy trinity, standing guard permitting only the most heroic to enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[155,158,157,154,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30045"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30108,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30045\/revisions\/30108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}