{"id":18685,"date":"2013-07-09T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18685"},"modified":"2013-07-09T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T13:00:54","slug":"listening-to-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18685","title":{"rendered":"Listening To..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of what my car CD player is playing these days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City<\/strong>. While I do prefer the overt guitar-based afro-pop of the first two records to the studio-confections of this one, it's still a fun record. Plenty of good songs, interesting lyrics, etc.. Four raquos &raquo;&raquo;&raquo;&raquo;\n<li><strong>The National - The Boxer<\/strong>. Reminds me of The Church, Joy Division, and what I imagine Nick Cave sounds like. In other words: Very 80's alt influenced. Nice. Four raquos &raquo;&raquo;&raquo;&raquo;\n<li><strong>Mos Def - The New Danger<\/strong>. There's a live-band feel on most of this, but not a very interesting one. A couple of catchy tunes, but a <em>lot<\/em> of stuff that just doesn't grab me. Two raquos &raquo;&raquo;\n<\/ul>\n<p>Y'all got anything new ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of what my car CD player is playing these days: Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City. While I do prefer the overt guitar-based afro-pop of the first two records to the studio-confections of this one, it's still a fun record. Plenty of good songs, interesting lyrics, etc.. Four raquos &raquo;&raquo;&raquo;&raquo; The National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}