{"id":207,"date":"2006-04-07T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=207"},"modified":"2015-11-01T13:04:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T21:04:33","slug":"slide-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/04\/07\/slide-interlude\/","title":{"rendered":"Slide Interlude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/images\/blogimages\/SlideInterlude.jpg\" alt=\"Slide interlude\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lately it seems like your AYoS posts have been increasingly late and increasingly brief. Where are all those goofy little vignettes I&#8217;ve gotten in the habit of reading while listening to your podcast?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What gives?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A <\/span>We musicians and songwriters have a technical term for the answer to that question. We call it <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">the day job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s both the engine of freedom which keeps us from having to perform back-to-back versions of &#8220;Thank God I&#8217;m a Country Boy&#8221; in subway stations and on popular promenades as well as the perennial distraction that drags us away from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">the important business of making original music few will likely ever hear and even fewer will care about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which might seem to provoke the question: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Why bother with music at all in the first place?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Might as well ask the caged bird why he sings&#8230;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SLIDE INTERLUDE<\/span><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-207-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Slide_Interlude_20060406\/20060406_Slide_Interlude.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Slide_Interlude_20060406\/20060406_Slide_Interlude.mp3\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Slide_Interlude_20060406\/20060406_Slide_Interlude.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q Lately it seems like your AYoS posts have been increasingly late and increasingly brief. Where are all those goofy little vignettes I&#8217;ve gotten in the habit of reading while listening to your podcast? What gives? A We musicians and songwriters have a technical term for the answer to that question. We call it the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,263,7],"tags":[226,868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}