{"id":660,"date":"2007-11-05T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T12:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=660"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:22:04","slug":"quote_of_the_da-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/quote_of_the_da-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harpmagazine.com\/articles\/detail.cfm?article_id=6340\">\u201cI\u2019ve always been a sucker for sad songs. I can listen to nothing but Slowdive records and be a pig in shit, so I naturally gravitate to writing those kinds of songs,\u201d Bridwell says. <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>[click quote to go to full Harp Magazine interview; link via <a href=\"http:\/\/djbvmusic.typepad.com\/djbv_music\/2007\/11\/pitchforks-ryan.html\">DJBV<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got nothing but good things to say about the new <strong>Band of Horses &#8220;Cease to Begin&#8221; [doh]<\/strong>.  I find the album totally entrancing and it&#8217;s one of my favorites of the year.   But admittedly their songs are not super upbeat.  Like their lead singer, I&#8217;m more than happy to listen to sad songs and <strong>wallow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been a sucker for sad songs. I can listen to nothing but Slowdive records and be a pig in shit, so I naturally gravitate to writing those kinds of songs,\u201d Bridwell says. [click quote to go to full &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/quote_of_the_da-3.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_of_the_xxx","category-listenin","category-recommending","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}