{"id":27400,"date":"2018-01-18T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27400"},"modified":"2018-01-19T12:34:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T17:34:49","slug":"too-much-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27400","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/therecord\/2018\/01\/16\/578216674\/too-much-music-a-failed-experiment-in-dedicated-listening\">NPR:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know far more today about albums I hated in 1990 than I do about my favorite albums released last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>The ease of purchase and my adult income have made buying records far too easy. IT just piles up. And though I never really got into the pirating thing, I did dabble. I scooped up a lot of stuff all at once. And most of that is now just gathering dust out in the seldom-visited sectors of my network storage box.<\/p>\n<p>The author of the linked piece tried to get back in the habit of fully-absorbing a new record in a rather rigid way - which is why it failed. But I'm trying to do it by simply buying less new\/new-to-me music. And if I find something new I really like, I'm not rushing out and grab everything else by that band; I just absorb that one record as best I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR: I know far more today about albums I hated in 1990 than I do about my favorite albums released last year. Sigh. Yeah. The ease of purchase and my adult income have made buying records far too easy. IT just piles up. And though I never really got into the pirating thing, I did [&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-27400","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\/27400","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=27400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27407,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27400\/revisions\/27407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}