{"id":763,"date":"2012-02-15T08:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=763"},"modified":"2018-03-27T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:29:24","slug":"were-in-the-middle-of-a-makeover-pardon-the-construction-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2012\/02\/15\/were-in-the-middle-of-a-makeover-pardon-the-construction-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging into the past&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-15-19.16.47-PaperCamera.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-893\" title=\"2012-02-15 19.16.47 PaperCamera\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-15-19.16.47-PaperCamera-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-15-19.16.47-PaperCamera-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-15-19.16.47-PaperCamera.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m trying to make it <strong>easier to discover <\/strong>interesting older material\u00a0&#8212; AYoS has <strong>over 400 posts<\/strong>, most featuring impromptu, acoustic recordings of my \u00a0<strong>150+ songs<\/strong>, many accompanied by microprose that meanders between <strong>fiction<\/strong> and <strong>autiobiography<\/strong>. Incredibly &#8212; I&#8217;m more surprised than anyone &#8212; there have been <strong>over 500,000 downloads<\/strong> of AYoS songs from Archive.org since the Fall Equinox 2005, when A Year of Songs was founded. (I imagine that means 499,000 people stabbing the kill button, but a half million clicks is a half million clicks, <em>you know<\/em>?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The new <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.AYearOfSongs.org\/blg\/?random\">Random Post<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(on the main menu) will send you <strong>hurtling back through time<\/strong> to a <strong>randomly selected \u00a0post\u00a0<\/strong>from the last 7 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And finally it&#8217;s <strong>kind of fun<\/strong>\u00a0using\u00a0the new\u00a0<strong><em>Post Shuffle<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; the thumbnail menu near the top of the right sidebar. You&#8217;ll see a different selection of posts each time a page loads. I find it almost hypnotic to click my way randomly through my own blog&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>One last thing, if you&#8217;re a newcomer to AYoS and, well&#8230; you&#8217;re wondering, reasonably enough&#8230; let me put your mind to ease: <em>Yes<\/em>, I <em>know<\/em> I&#8217;m not much of a singer. I like to think I have a songwriter&#8217;s voice &#8212; if you listen hard enough, you can probably figure out what notes I meant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0 I&#8217;m trying to make it easier to discover interesting older material\u00a0&#8212; AYoS has over 400 posts, most featuring impromptu, acoustic recordings of my \u00a0150+ songs, many accompanied by microprose that meanders between fiction and autiobiography. Incredibly &#8212; I&#8217;m more surprised than anyone &#8212; there have been over 500,000 downloads of AYoS [&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":[148],"tags":[1033],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}