{"id":89,"date":"2008-12-04T22:57:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T03:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-12-04T22:57:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T03:57:20","slug":"music-from-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/2008\/1204\/music-from-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Music from Jamaica&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;all the love that I found&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I realize that one of the reasons I&#8217;m sucking at updating my blog is that I think I limited the scope too much. I was walking a fine line between making it interesting and trying to focus on a topic. My particular life in the IT\/Telecom world is exciting for sure, but not blogworthy on a very regular basis for the uninitiated. So, as of today I will decree that this blog will expand topics to generally anything I find interesting, including music, video games, and other cool shit. I realize I wasn&#8217;t all that focused before, but now I won&#8217;t regret writing about other topics and won&#8217;t ignore interesting things because they didn&#8217;t fit into my plan.<\/p>\n<p>Now that that&#8217;s out of the way, I&#8217;d like to refer back to the beginning of this entry! I saw Pilfers* in what could possibly be (but damn, let&#8217;s hope not!) their last show of the tour in Hartford. It luckily coincided with me visiting my parents for Thanksgiving. I wasn&#8217;t sure that I wanted to go despite the show in Boston being so awesome, mostly because I didn&#8217;t want to be that guy who goes to every show. Luckily for me 2 shows isn&#8217;t every show (though it is a whopping third of them!) and Coolie Ranx personally thanked me (while on stage) for writing my last blog post.<\/p>\n<p>So here I&#8217;ll say it again: I cannot more strongly recommend Pilfers as a source of awesome music. I convinced at least one other person of this so far, and I&#8217;m glad that I did. As a special note, it was brought to my attention that Pilfers prefer to be referred to as such without the article, so I&#8217;m working on writing it that way. I hope my grammatical ignorance in my last post is not the source of Coolie Ranx&#8217;s announcement that there&#8217;s no &#8220;the&#8221; in Pilfers during the last show! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As you might imagine I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of ska and punk lately and I think that whole genre has a bad rap for being a fad. There are some really talented musicians in those bands and I will admit what many might consider sacrelidge but Ska is what got me on the road to appreciating Jazz back in high school. Fusion genres are where it&#8217;s at and more genres are fusion than you might think! More on that later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, hopefully I&#8217;m back! Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;all the love that I found&#8230;&#8221; I realize that one of the reasons I&#8217;m sucking at updating my blog is that I think I limited the scope too much. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[74,78,68,42],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-music","tag-meta","tag-music","tag-pilfers","tag-ska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}