{"id":3003,"date":"2011-05-21T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T15:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2011-05-21T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T15:57:18","slug":"bleah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/bleah-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the &#8217;80&#8217;s, I quit listening to the radio entirely, focusing instead on building up my classical music library. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/lists\/100-best-albums-of-the-eighties-20110418\">This illustrates why<\/a>. ((There <em>was<\/em> some great rock recorded during that decade: Steve Morse&#8217;s <strong><em>The Introduction<\/em><\/strong>, King Crimson&#8217;s <strong><em>Discipline<\/em><\/strong>, Steve Vai&#8217;s first two albums, Joe Satriani&#8217;s <strong><em>Surfing with the Alien<\/em><\/strong>, early Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Djam Karet, Boiled in Lead, Adrian Belew, and more I&#8217;ll think of later. But most of these are primarily instrumental efforts, and it&#8217;s hard to write intelligently about music as music \u2014 too hard for <strong><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/strong> writers, who&#8217;d rather drivel on about politics, transgression and other nonsense than actually <em>listen<\/em> to the music they review.))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the &#8217;80&#8217;s, I quit listening to the radio entirely, focusing instead on building up my classical music library. This illustrates why. ((There was some great rock recorded during that decade: Steve Morse&#8217;s The Introduction, King Crimson&#8217;s Discipline, Steve Vai&#8217;s first two albums, Joe Satriani&#8217;s Surfing with the Alien, early Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Djam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/bleah-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bleah&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[669],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Mr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","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=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}