{"id":60758,"date":"2023-04-10T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T02:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=60758"},"modified":"2023-04-10T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T02:20:02","slug":"my-blog-is-on-holidays-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=60758","title":{"rendered":"My blog is on holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s a holiday today in Australia and I am using the time to finish a major project so that I get started on the next (few)! I also published Episode 4 of my new podcast today. And I am listening to music so I can share that with you.
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Podcast – Episode 4<\/h2>\n

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Episode 4 for my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape<\/a> – is now available. <\/p>\n

I discuss the popular misbelief that as ‘taxpayers’ we provide the government with the necessary funds that allow it to spend.<\/p>\n

The idea that to enjoy better government services and infrastructure requires offsetting public spending cuts and\/or higher taxes is a fiction and prevents the government from taking the necessary action to deal with the major challenges of the day.<\/p>\n

Music – Miles Davis<\/h2>\n

This is what I have been listening to while working this morning.<\/p>\n

Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio<\/a> – is track one from the 1960 album – Sketches of Spain<\/a> (Columbia) – recorded by – Miles Davis<\/a> – in his <\/p>\n

This piece is part of the concerto – Concierto de Aranjuez<\/a> – written by – Joqaquin Rodrigo<\/a> – for classical guitar in 1939.<\/p>\n

A remarkable part of the concerto is that Rodrigo was nearly blind and did not play guitar (he was a piano player).<\/p>\n

While this is one of my favourite albums and has been since I purchased it in the early 1970s, music critics panned it as being not jazzy enough.<\/p>\n

They missed the point unfortunately.<\/p>\n