{"id":58,"date":"2005-03-21T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2005-03-22T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=58"},"modified":"2018-11-08T08:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T15:24:03","slug":"anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The observant reader will have noticed that the title of this website is now &#8220;A House Named Anthem&#8221;. The house is named after a song called &#8220;Anthem&#8221;, that was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030126084620\/http:\/\/lyraguitarviolin.com:80\/\">Lyra<\/a>, a classical guitar and violin duet. The duet consists of Maryanne Kremer-Ames, who plays the classical guitar, and Allen Ames, her husband, who plays both violin and the violyra.<\/p>\n<p>We first heard Lyra&#8217;s music while we were traveling through Sedona, and<br \/>\nstayed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briarpatchinn.com\/\">Briar Patch Inn<\/a> bed and breakfast. We were sitting out by<br \/>\nOak creek, eating our breakfast, and Lyra was playing a beautiful piece that<br \/>\nwe had never heard before.<\/p>\n<p>When we asked them about the piece, they said that it was titled &#8220;Anthem&#8221;, and<br \/>\nthat it was inspired by the beauty of the Sedona area. We liked the piece, and<br \/>\nthe area, so much that when we got married it was at that same Bed and Breakfast,<br \/>\nand we invited Lyra to play at our wedding. The name of the piece they played during<br \/>\nthe ceremony was &#8220;Anthem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We later found out that Allen and Maryanne were married at the Briar Patch Inn,<br \/>\nten years previously.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that &#8220;Anthem&#8221; is also the title of Ayn Rand&#8217;s short novel, is not entirely coincidental, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The observant reader will have noticed that the title of this website is now &#8220;A House Named Anthem&#8221;. The house is named after a song called &#8220;Anthem&#8221;, that was written by Lyra, a classical guitar and violin duet. The duet consists of Maryanne Kremer-Ames, who plays the classical guitar, and Allen Ames, her husband, who plays both violin and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-utah-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilesritter.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}