{"id":5476,"date":"2009-04-22T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2009-04-22T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T19:34:12","slug":"taking-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5476","title":{"rendered":"Taking Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/20\/encores\/#Bird\">Andrew Bird<\/a> on \"vitriolic\" comments on his pieces at the \"Measure For Measure\" blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My first response to some of the comments was \u201cWow, that\u2019s cold,\u201d then, \u201cOh, but you haven\u2019t been listening\u201d \u2014 and then, \u201cReally, you speak as if I have some choice over what I write and if I have some obligation to address the things you or the average American might care about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a whole industry devoted to writing songs pitched toward a certain demographic. All I can do is write about what I care about and hope you might relate. And if not, here are some sweet melodies. This is my life\u2019s work and I\u2019ve been immersed in it so long that I can\u2019t really extract one from the other. So I kept envisioning one of those bumper stickers on the back of a semi-trailer that says, \u201cHow\u2019s my driving? Call\u2026\u201d I kept thinking, \u201cHow\u2019s my living?\u201d as if I were taking suggestions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Bird on \"vitriolic\" comments on his pieces at the \"Measure For Measure\" blog: My first response to some of the comments was \u201cWow, that\u2019s cold,\u201d then, \u201cOh, but you haven\u2019t been listening\u201d \u2014 and then, \u201cReally, you speak as if I have some choice over what I write and if I have some obligation [&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-5476","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\/5476","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=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}