{"id":129,"date":"2005-09-08T07:38:18","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2005-09-08T07:38:59","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T14:38:59","slug":"its-a-small-worldagain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"It’s A Small World…Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every once in a while, I comment on how small the world is, as I did here <\/a>and here<\/a>. Yesterday it happened again. I received an email from Ms. Yarns&Yarns<\/a> whose lastname is the same as that of a noted jazz writer. Before reading the email, seeing only the name, I thought perhaps it was a missive from a jazz newsgroup, but then realized that couldn’t be the case, because the writer I was thinking of died several years ago. The last name is rather unusual, but there must be others in the world so named.<\/p>\n

When I read the email, I saw that it had nothing to do with jazz. Ms. Yarns&Yarns had written to say that she, too, loved the movie The Five Pennies<\/em>, and she reminded me that Barbara Bel Gedes died a couple of weeks ago. “I thought you should schedule another viewing of the film, in honor!” she wrote. I agree. She said a few nice things about the design of my blog, and questioned the fact that I do not allow readers to post comments. I wrote back to her, saying that in lieu of allowing comments, I often post interesting emails I receive from readers. And so began a brief flurry of emails between us. <\/p>\n

While I perused her blog and found this post about Barbara Bel Gedes<\/a> titled Farewell, BBG<\/em> , she was perusing devrahall.com<\/a> and wrote back: “Your jazz connections mean that you and I have another connection, by the way. My father was a jazz critic of some note….”<\/p>\n

I was on the right track from the beginning, and in reviewing her father’s works, I realize that some of it is relevant to my current research. So, the moral of this story is threefold:<\/p>\n

1) trust your instincts and listen to those inner voices;
\n2) people cross your path for a reason — be open to the experience; and
\n3) talk to strangers as they may turn out to be someone you know<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every once in a while, I comment on how small the world is, as I did here and here. Yesterday it happened again. I received an email from Ms. Yarns&Yarns whose lastname is the same as that of a noted jazz writer. Before reading the email, seeing only the name, I thought perhaps it was … Continue reading “It’s A Small World…Again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ive-got-mail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}