{"id":246,"date":"2013-09-27T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/09\/27\/an-orchestral-piece-about-an-illness-that-preys-on-ultra-cavers\/"},"modified":"2013-09-27T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T10:49:08","slug":"an-orchestral-piece-about-an-illness-that-preys-on-ultra-cavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/09\/an-orchestral-piece-about-an-illness-that-preys-on-ultra-cavers\/","title":{"rendered":"An Orchestral Piece About an Illness that Preys On Ultra-Cavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21728280\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/21728280\">Rapture for Orchestra by Patrick Harlin<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/patrickharlin\">Patrick Harlin<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That piece&#8211;which I *love*&#8211;was inspired by this: <a title=\"A 'Blind Descent' Into The Deepest Caves On Earth : NPR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=127937159\">A &#8216;Blind Descent&#8217; Into The Deepest Caves On Earth : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=blkq>\nDrowning, poisonous gas inhalation and electrocution are perils of journeying through a supercave. Tabor says there are more than 50 ways for a person to die during these explorations.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s also a danger of developing an illness known as &#8220;the rapture&#8221; \u2014 an extreme reaction to darkness and depth. Those who have suffered from it describe it as being similar to an anxiety attack while on methamphetamines.<br \/>\n&#8220;At some level, everyone&#8217;s brain will start to say, &#8216;I don&#8217;t belong here. This is a very dangerous place.&#8217; It&#8217;s an ancient primordial instinct and it just says, &#8216;You have to get me out of here, right now.'&#8221;\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a title=\"The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra to perform a piece by University of Michigan music student | Michigan Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/michiganradio.org\/post\/st-louis-symphony-orchestra-perform-piece-university-michigan-music-student\">great interview with the composer, Patrick Harlin, on Michigan Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapture for Orchestra by Patrick Harlin from Patrick Harlin on Vimeo. That piece&#8211;which I *love*&#8211;was inspired by this: A &#8216;Blind Descent&#8217; Into The Deepest Caves On Earth : NPR Drowning, poisonous gas inhalation and electrocution are perils of journeying through a supercave. Tabor says there are more than 50 ways for a person to die &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/09\/an-orchestral-piece-about-an-illness-that-preys-on-ultra-cavers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Orchestral Piece About an Illness that Preys On Ultra-Cavers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}