{"id":11185,"date":"2012-11-11T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T23:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=11185"},"modified":"2012-11-11T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T23:23:33","slug":"jazz-and-uu-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/jazz-and-uu-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz and UU Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1999\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11185-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-11-11_Jazz_and_UU_Theology.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-11-11_Jazz_and_UU_Theology.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-11-11_Jazz_and_UU_Theology.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-11-11_Jazz_and_UU_Theology.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=11185-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-11-11_Jazz_and_UU_Theology.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2012-11-11_Jazz_and_UU_Theology.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Rev. Meg Barnhouse<\/p>\n<p>November 11, 2012<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Equilibrium with Elegance: Jazz and UU Theology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Wynton Marsalis writes: &#8220;To improvise means to find your own way of intelligently using what you have in order to improve your environment; to swing means to maintain equilibrium with elegance, to be resilient; and to play the blues means that no matter how tragic a situation may be you have the capacity to conquer it with style.&#8221; UU theology and practice is very much like jazz.<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9diXt9dpIpA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Text of this sermon is not yet available. Click the play button to listen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Podcasts of this and other sermons are also available for free on iTunes. You can find them <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Meg Barnhouse November 11, 2012 Equilibrium with Elegance: Jazz and UU Theology Wynton Marsalis writes: &#8220;To improvise means to find your own way of intelligently using what you have in order to improve your environment; to swing means to maintain equilibrium with elegance, to be resilient; and to play the blues means that no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,16,2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-available","category-meg-barnhouse","category-sermons","category-video-available"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}