{"id":1022,"date":"2004-01-14T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T19:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/01\/14\/1022\/"},"modified":"2004-01-14T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2004-01-14T19:33:06","slug":"1022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/01\/14\/1022\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attackedbyplastic.com\/\" title=\"You can just go to benfolds.com too, obviously, but I figured you knew that.\">Ben Folds EPs<\/a>, finally, after shaving some money off the Cool T-Shirts section of my budget.<a href=\"#2004011401\">*<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benfolds.com\/ep_letter\/sunny16.html\" title=\"&quot;i've always said i'd write one love song and one political song. i think this is about as political as i care to be in my music.&quot;\">Sunny 16<\/a> is great music, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benfolds.com\/ep_letter\/index.html\" title=\"&quot;tracks recorded live through old shit, which breaks all the time, into a massive tape machine, which also breaks all the time and mixed in an afternoon.&quot;\">Speed Graphic<\/a>&#8230;  it&#8217;s like he walked into the studio and said &#8220;I, Ben Folds, will now write five songs deliberately and specifically to make Brendan Adkins of Louisville, Kentucky twitch and squirm with joy.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a pretty perfect disc.  I think it just may have replaced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000002CWI\/qid=1074112123\/sr=1-2\/ref=sr_1_2\/103-6029066-8855818?v=glance&#038;s=music\" title=\"&quot;Customers interested in Toad the Wet Sprocket may also be interested in: Sprockets and Gears.  Factory for Sprockets and Gears Industrial supplier ISO 9002&quot;\">Acoustic Dance Party<\/a> as my favorite twelve-inch ever.  Well, assuming I&#8217;d bought either of them as a twelve-inch.  Which I didn&#8217;t.  But still.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, yeah, like that stuff a lot.  I also got the Bens EP, after already having everything on it for like a year.  I always thought Grandma&#8217;s Genius should cover &#8220;Bruised,&#8221; but I think &#8220;Let&#8217;s Pretend&#8221; would be better now.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"2004011401\">*<\/a> You mean you don&#8217;t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the new Ben Folds EPs, finally, after shaving some money off the Cool T-Shirts section of my budget.* Sunny 16 is great music, but Speed Graphic&#8230; it&#8217;s like he walked into the studio and said &#8220;I, Ben Folds, will now write five songs deliberately and specifically to make Brendan Adkins of Louisville, Kentucky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bands-ive-been-in","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}