{"id":21268,"date":"2014-10-16T15:44:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21268"},"modified":"2014-10-16T15:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:44:17","slug":"the-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21268","title":{"rendered":"The Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listen to music at work, always have. In the before time, in the long-long-ago, I schlepped 8 CDs back and forth to work every day: a different set every day. But pretty much as soon as I got my first iPod, back in 2003, I stopped listening to albums all the way through. I just put the thing on shuffle and let it run.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I've noticed that, if I have two or more albums from a band which I purchased at the same time or nearly the same time, I can't say which album a song came from. It's just from 'the album I bought last week' or whatever. In my head, an album is starting to be more like a container which I buy and then upend in order to dump a new batch of songs into the iPods' mix; it's no longer something that I think about as its own entity. <\/p>\n<p>But I don't like that; I like the idea that an album is intended to be listened to as a whole. And so I've started listening to albums again. And that's nice.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? Still on albums? Or shuffle? Or playlists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listen to music at work, always have. In the before time, in the long-long-ago, I schlepped 8 CDs back and forth to work every day: a different set every day. But pretty much as soon as I got my first iPod, back in 2003, I stopped listening to albums all the way through. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268","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=21268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21269,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268\/revisions\/21269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}