{"id":1069,"date":"2008-12-23T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T08:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2011-08-28T17:39:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:39:57","slug":"best_album_i_wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/12\/best_album_i_wa.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Album I Wasn&#8217;t Listening to Until Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/june_album_revi.html\">June<\/a>, I started listening to this song <strong>&#8220;Backwards Walk&#8221; <\/strong>by <strong>Frightened Rabbit <\/strong>that was on a Paste sampler.  By August, I had become officially obsessed with it; thus its presence on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/09\/awesome_dragonc.html\">my Dragon*Con mix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet somehow I kept forgetting to check out anything else by this band.  What is wrong with me?  Then a week or two ago, I start, as is my usual December pasttime, reading through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/11\/2008_yearend_on_1.html\">all the year-end lists so nicely compiled by Large-Hearted Boy<\/a>.  And I start seeing Frightened Rabbit everywhere&#8230;  And I look at my iPod and wonder &#8220;Do I have anything by them?  Why Yes. OH? THIS IS THEIR SONG!?!&#8221;  And then they popped up on Heather&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/fuelfriends.blogspot.com\/\">Fuel\/Friends<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/fuelfriends.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/fuelfriends-favorites-of-2008.html\">year-end list <\/a>and I knew I had to get my lazy butt in gear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frightened Rabbit &#8220;The Midnight Organ Fight&#8221;<\/strong> = best album of 2008 that I didn&#8217;t listen to until December.  And I totally regret that.  But at least I&#8217;m listening to it now.  It&#8217;s REALLY good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So back in June, I started listening to this song &#8220;Backwards Walk&#8221; by Frightened Rabbit that was on a Paste sampler. By August, I had become officially obsessed with it; thus its presence on my Dragon*Con mix. Yet somehow I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/12\/best_album_i_wa.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album","category-listenin","category-recommending","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}