{"id":10138,"date":"2015-03-25T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2015-03-06T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T07:34:07","slug":"what-music-inspires-shauna-omeara-inspirationalmusic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/what-music-inspires-shauna-omeara-inspirationalmusic\/","title":{"rendered":"What Music Inspires Shauna O\u2019Meara #InspirationalMusic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post-content clearfix\">\n<h3>Who is Shauna O\u2019Meara?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-content clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shauna-OMeara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10140\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shauna-OMeara-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shauna OMeara\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shauna-OMeara-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shauna-OMeara-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shauna-OMeara-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shauna-OMeara.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Shauna O\u2019Meara is a Ditmar nominated artist, writer and veterinarian based in Canberra, Australia. She was a winner of the 2013 Writers of the Future contest and her short stories have appeared in <em>Writers of the Future: volume 30<\/em>, <em>Cosmos Magazine,<\/em> <em>Midnight Echo<\/em>, <em>Australian Security Nightmares <\/em>and the CSFG anthologies: <em>Next <\/em>and <em>The Never Never Land <\/em>(upcoming). She has contributed cover or interior art to several Australian speculative fiction anthologies including: <em>In Fabula-divino,<\/em> <em>Cthulhu: Deep Down Under<\/em>, <em>Gold Coast Anthology: Undertow, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 61 <\/em>(upcoming)<em>, Winds of Change,<\/em> <em>Next <\/em>and <em>The Never Never Land<\/em> (upcoming). She also recently completed the artwork for a short comic commissioned by <em>Midnight Echo<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<h3>Where can I read more about this fabulous author?<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Shauna O'Meara\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theshaunacorner.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theshaunacorner.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What music do they like?<\/h3>\n<p>Here are the two artists I am currently listening to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First Aid Kit is a Swedish folk band I first encountered on Triple J. Their songs are all stories, often containing a mythical, magical quality, that the folk style imbues with a gorgeous, plain-speaking earnestness. Lion&#8217;s Roar gave me tingles when I first heard it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cl5FdvRR4pQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-AU&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alt-J can do no wrong in my eyes. I have both Alt-J albums and pretty much play them on cycle. These guys walk that fine line between the exquisitely beautiful and downright disturbing, which I think is what happens when any artist decides to truly engage and not hold back. The lead voice has a quality I can&#8217;t describe and there are so many layers to their music and lyrics that, with each section, the most amazing images and feelings are conjured. I would love to have this shifting, layered quality in my writing. I would also like to have the creative fun that I feel these artists are engaging in.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S3fTw_D3l10?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-AU&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find an official trailer for Taro and some of the other videos they have made for their songs are quite disturbing, so I went with this version which, for me, encapsulates the joy and wild abandon this song makes me feel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Shauna O\u2019Meara? Shauna O\u2019Meara is a Ditmar nominated artist, writer and veterinarian based in Canberra, Australia. She was a winner of the 2013 Writers of the Future contest and her short stories have appeared in Writers of the Future: volume 30, Cosmos Magazine, Midnight Echo, Australian Security Nightmares\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/what-music-inspires-shauna-omeara-inspirationalmusic\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[1212,1210,564,1213,1211],"class_list":["post-10138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-authors","tag-alt-j","tag-first-aid-kit","tag-shauna-omeara","tag-taro","tag-the-lions-roar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10141,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions\/10141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}