{"id":1912,"date":"2021-12-30T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themes.pixelwars.org\/episody\/demo-01\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2022-01-04T14:51:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T14:51:43","slug":"spotify-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/?p=1912","title":{"rendered":"Episode 3: Parade Love, Everything is Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1912\" class=\"elementor elementor-1912\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2953438 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2953438\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4450949\" data-id=\"4450949\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bcfeac2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bcfeac2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.4 - 13-04-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2h6hmTLSfvsGFdkx7oA026?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6fc4640 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"6fc4640\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/afd6129b-5a67-40f8-91d3-adf98175c942\/observing-others?ref=dm_sh_tzsCyLlxuc1v67V690axOyUGk\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-sm\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon elementor-align-icon-left\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-play\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Listen Also Amazon Music<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4c5628e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4c5628e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1840def\" data-id=\"1840def\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea7aed7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ea7aed7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">In just two days 11<sup>th<\/sup> ranked University of Utah Football team plays 6<sup>th<\/sup> ranked Ohio State in the University of Utah\u2019s first ever trip to the Rose Bowl!<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">The Rose Bowl and all the celebrations surrounding it are such honored New Year\u2019s Day traditions. The unmatched Rose Bowl Parade has been a cherished favorite of mine. Personally, I have marched with marching bands in parades and have even designed and built float, but never in the Rose Bowl Parade.\u00a0 To me, it is the granddaddy of them all!<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">The University of Utah is my Alma Mater. Years ago, not only did I march with the Ute marching band, I was asked by the Director of Bands to design one of the University of Utah half time marching band field shows.\u00a0 It was the first time I was able to design and perform in one of my own halftime shows!\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">In addition to that, on a separate occasion, I also designed a float for one of the University of Utah\u2019s Homecoming Parades. <\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">There is an interesting characteristic of both parades and half-time marching band field shows. With regards to parades, each float is individual and unique, but no parade exists with just one float or just one marching band.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">During the years that I marched with my own high school marching band, one of the slogans I remember was: &#8220;The band is nothing without the individual and the individual is nothing without the band.&#8221; This mantra was specific to the field show marching band because when someone was missing from the drill formation, it was obvious to everyone from the stands. Hence, the group is nothing without the individual, the individual is nothing without the group. It was obvious because there was a gap, space, or as we called it a &#8220;hole&#8221; where the person missing was supposed to be marching. Just as it would have been impossible for one person to represent an entire formation, it was often impractical to march with too many holes when too many band members were missing.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">As great as the University of Utah marching band may be, the real treat on January 1st will be to watch the incredible formations of the Ohio State Marching Band during their halftime performance.\u00a0 Ohio State halftimes are beyond extraordinary\u2014they are legendary. Ohio State has done tributes to famous musicians like Michael Jackson and the rock band Rush.\u00a0 But, beyond the music they play, the formations the marching band makes and moves as they play are unparalleled and unmatched by any other college marching band!<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Not only do the formations Ohio State creates require great precision, they also require each player to be in its proper place.\u00a0 The collective needs the individual.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Then there is the Rose Bowl Parade. Each year tens of thousands of hours are devoted to building floats for Pasadena&#8217;s Rose Parade. If you haven&#8217;t watched the parade recently you have missed the detailed descriptions of all the natural fruits, plants, vegetables, nuts, even honey, that are used on these floats. These elaborate ingredients are in addition to the traditional roses and other flowers. The float rules haven&#8217;t really changed after all these years: parade floats are still required to have only fresh, real, optimally organic materials used to decorate the exterior of the floats. But the creative ways that naturally produced materials have been introduced and incorporated into the float building has evolved fantastically.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">And with so many natural ingredients, it would be impossible to build a float alone in a short time frame.\u00a0 Float building for the Rose Parade requires volunteers.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">While float building is a volunteer project and the main focus of the preparations for the parade, there is a little-known by-product from all this float building activity. Marriages!<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">It&#8217;s TRUE! Each year there are a number of engagements and marriages that result from the matchmaking that occurs during the endless hours of community float building. There is something about working closely with someone, on a time or labor-intensive shared task, that is not only revealing, but also bonding.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">I saw this same type of bonding during my many years of designing half time field shows for high school marching bands. More often than not, high school kids joined their high school marching band because of their friends or to make friends. Loving music was one thing but loving music and hanging out with friends was everything!<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Whether it\u2019s building floats or multiple float entries in a parade, whether it\u2019s marching in a parade or on a football field, each individual person is needed to pull off the combined pageantry of collective efforts.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">There are times when we must do things alone. It has often been said that we all march to the beat of a different drum. And, while that may be true, if people are to march in sync, together, finding a common beat is necessary.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">In a parade, for a marching band to reach a perfect uniformity of motion, a common tempo is required. The beat of a snare drum is an ideal method for establishing a tempo. This tempo is known as the cadence. Marching together requires starting on the same foot, but it also requires that the band go thru its paces at the same pace.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">It is not a race; it is about the pace.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Last episode we talked about the tug of war that often occurs with opposites.\u00a0 We mentioned quality and quantity for example. But, in reality, what really is required is balance.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">The same holds true with an individual and a group.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">In fact, all the opposites on our list are really like bookends: two opposite anchors.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Two bookends that stand on opposite ends of a spectrum but hold the entire book collection together that sits on the same bookshelf.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Balance requires bookends.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Go Utes!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen Also Amazon Music In just two days 11th ranked University of Utah Football team plays 6th ranked Ohio State in the University of Utah\u2019s first ever trip to the Rose Bowl! The Rose Bowl and all the celebrations surrounding it are such honored New Year\u2019s Day traditions. The unmatched Rose Bowl Parade has been a cherished favorite of mine. Personally, I have marched with&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/?p=1912\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"1919329","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-podcast","is-cat-link-regular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/observingothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}