{"id":33,"date":"2008-09-02T17:58:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T01:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-09-02T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T01:59:06","slug":"all-is-not-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"all is not lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i have been hacking away at the same tune for about a month now.  i have no idea why it has taken so long to finalize an arrangement, but it has.  the result is pleasant but will require some editing.  i hate it, but sometimes that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the way it has to be.<\/p>\n<p>life is busy.  a family takes time if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to do it right.  i also want to do my music right.  i guess that means that my self-imposed deadline for the release of this album is going to be blown to pieces.  i would have to really pull off a miracle to make it happen and i don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to rush this one the way i did the last.  with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the green man collection\u00e2\u20ac\u009d it was almost as important to finish it as it was to do it right.  that album was really a process for me and i\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad that i did it the way i did.  that said, i really need to do this one right for the same reasons.  it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another process.<\/p>\n<p>i\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m using a pile of new methods to motivate myself.  i\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to see if connecting with old friends and new via several networking sites and one of those narcissistic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153look at me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d technologies (twitter) will provide some external force.  all of the requisite links are over there on the left.  it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s harder to slack and not show progress when people are watching.<\/p>\n<p>expect more frequent updates.  i am going to put things out in the open and see where it takes me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i have been hacking away at the same tune for about a month now. i have no idea why it has taken so long to finalize an arrangement, but it has. the result is pleasant but will require some editing. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=33\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}