{"id":11815,"date":"2014-05-25T08:58:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T13:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=11815"},"modified":"2014-05-27T06:51:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T11:51:51","slug":"too-much-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/too-much-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Too much knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately when I’m in the mood for loud, fast and not overly intellectual music, I listen to Onmyouza, a well-dressed “yokai<\/em>” metal band. Here’s “\u7d44\u66f2\u300c\u9b3c\u5b50\u6bcd\u795e\u300d\u301c\u9b3c\u62f5\u30ce\u5504,” transliterated by Google as “Kumikyoku ‘kishimojin’ \u2014 oni Koshirae no uta.”<\/p>\n

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One of the advantages of listening to music in languages you don’t know is that you can pretend that the words are literate and worth hearing. I foolishly became curious about Onmyouza’s lyrics and looked for translations. I found a video with subtitles<\/a> of one of their other pieces, and I kinda wish I hadn’t. If you understand what the song above is about, please don’t<\/em> tell me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately when I’m in the mood for loud, fast and not overly intellectual music, I listen to Onmyouza, a well-dressed “yokai” metal band. Here’s “\u7d44\u66f2\u300c\u9b3c\u5b50\u6bcd\u795e\u300d\u301c\u9b3c\u62f5\u30ce\u5504,” transliterated by Google as “Kumikyoku ‘kishimojin’ \u2014 oni Koshirae no uta.” [audio:http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/oni Koshirae no uta.mp3] One of the advantages of listening to music in languages you don’t know is that … Continue reading “Too much knowledge”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-34z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11815"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11836,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815\/revisions\/11836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}