{"id":11532,"date":"2008-10-11T18:18:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T01:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/10\/11\/11532.html"},"modified":"2008-10-11T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T01:18:52","slug":"for-lands-afar-and-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/10\/11\/for-lands-afar-and-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"For lands afar and mine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Way back in early 2003, I wrote about hearing the Indigo Girls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/03\/19\/992.html\">perform \"Finlandia\"<\/a> with Joan Baez at a concert in Berkeley in the mid-'90s.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I noted that I couldn't find a recording of them singing the song. Somehow I failed to follow up on that posting two years ago, when I finally found their version of \"<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?i=159318406&id=159317868&s=143441\">Finlandia<\/a>\" in the iTunes Store, on their <cite>Rarities<\/cite> album, for the usual iTunes price of 99&cent;.<\/p>\n<p>It came up in my music rotation just now, and I had to stop what I was doing and turn up the volume and close my eyes. Just stunning.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>This is my home, the country where my heart is;<\/p>\n<p>Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;<\/p>\n<p>But other hearts in other lands are beating<\/p>\n<p>With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As I noted in my earlier entry, it's my very favorite patriotic song. And this is a particularly excellent rendition of it, with magnificent harmonies. If you haven't heard it, go give it a listen.<\/p>\n<p>(To be precise, the song is technically called \"Song of Peace\"; words by Lloyd Stone to the tune of Sibelius's \"Finlandia.\" But I think almost everyone who knows it just calls it \"Finlandia.\")<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in early 2003, I wrote about hearing the Indigo Girls perform &#8220;Finlandia&#8221; with Joan Baez at a concert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-things","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}