{"id":1705,"date":"2006-01-10T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2006\/01\/10\/unexpected-beauty\/"},"modified":"2006-01-10T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T03:03:07","slug":"unexpected-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2006\/01\/10\/unexpected-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking down a quiet street at night in my neighborhood, listening to Cat Power&#8217;s melancholy \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/musics?lid=3WAQHKDcJ8E&amp;aid=LPzlUE8tlaG&amp;sid=v3_jNTh0RXF\">Evolution<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I spotted an aluminum Christmas tree looking ghostly in a picture window, rotating with shifting colors, and in that moment, each was the perfect complement to the other, each elevating the other to a higher plane.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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