{"id":7480,"date":"2017-09-04T06:03:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2017-09-04T06:13:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:13:25","slug":"rawlings-halleys-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2017\/09\/rawlings-halleys-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Musical Paean to Halley&#8217;s Comet &#8211; Composition by Rodney Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rationalbusinessjournal.rationalargumentator.com\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\" alt=\"The New Renaissance Hat\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><big><big><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rodney Rawlings<\/span><br \/>\n<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">******************************<\/div>\n<p>The Rational Argumentator again features this piece by Rodney Rawlings \u2014 a musical paean to Halley\u2019s Comet \u2014 the feeling of the once-in-a-lifetime expectation and approach of the comet, its spectacular and beautiful show, and its eternal farewell.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENVhSWGm_Ck\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Listen to the MP3 file of the composition <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalargumentator.com\/halleys.comet.mp3\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Length: <\/strong>3:44<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Halleys_Comet_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Halleys_Comet_2-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Halleys_Comet_2-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Halleys_Comet_2-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Halleys_Comet_2.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rodney Rawlings is a Toronto writer and composer\/songwriter. He\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prleap.com\/pr\/102679\/\">arrived at the concept of hypercomplex numbers independently<\/a>, using Ayn Rand\u2019s philosophy of Objectivism to guide him. \u00a0See his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4UklzPdmzVm0tDc7coz5tw\">YouTube Channel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodney Rawlings ****************************** The Rational Argumentator again features this piece by Rodney Rawlings \u2014 a musical paean to Halley\u2019s Comet \u2014 the feeling of the once-in-a-lifetime expectation and approach of the comet, its spectacular and beautiful show, and its eternal farewell. Listen to the MP3 file of the composition here. Length: 3:44 Rodney Rawlings is a Toronto writer and composer\/songwriter. He\u00a0arrived at the concept of hypercomplex numbers independently, using Ayn Rand\u2019s philosophy of Objectivism to guide him. \u00a0See his YouTube&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2017\/09\/rawlings-halleys-comet\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5327,277,5326,5215],"class_list":["post-7480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-comet","tag-composition","tag-halleys-comet","tag-rodney-rawlings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7485,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions\/7485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}