{"id":22172,"date":"2017-01-03T09:54:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=22172"},"modified":"2017-01-03T09:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:54:38","slug":"old-carol-new-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2017\/01\/old-carol-new-technology.html","title":{"rendered":"And All Was For An Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Sometimes my mind makes big jumps, and I think this might be one of the clues to why and how I write.<\/p>\n

My mind makes connections that surprise and usually delight me and sometimes disturb me and sometimes all three.<\/p>\n

A case in point was my tooling along in the car the other day listening to some Christmas carols from Kings College Cambridge.<\/p>\n

I should say that the carol was on lodged on my iPhone using the Spotify music app. It was being played on my car\u2019s stereo system through a Bluetooth connection to my phone. The stereo system is pretty good and the sound was amazing.<\/p>\n

Wow! What kind of technology is this? I\u2019m listening to a child from England singing a medieval carol recorded in one of the finest buildings in Christendom while I am driving on an American interstate in 2017 in a car made in Sweden.<\/p>\n

The incongruity and awesomeness of this combined technology hit me hard. Then I listened to the carol.<\/p>\n

You can listen to it from the clip I\u2019ve embedded in this blog post which enhances the amazingness of the technology further.<\/p>\n