{"id":182,"date":"2009-07-28T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T09:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=182"},"modified":"2009-07-28T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T09:14:47","slug":"in_the_end_will_we_all_just_wr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/07\/in_the_end_will_we_all_just_wr\/","title":{"rendered":"In the End, Will We All Just Write Obituaries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A sample from this morning&#8217;s <i>Slate<\/i> article on the death of music magazines (sniff). <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2223381\/pagenum\/all\/\">full article<\/a> is definitely worth a read, but I think the high point was the line &#8220;there&#8217;s dancing about architecture, you see, and then there&#8217;s hyperventilating about crap.&#8221; Touch\u00c3\u00a9, my friend.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, reason #3 music mags are doomed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Music magazines were an early version of social networking. But now there&#8217;s this thing called &#8220;social networking&#8221; &#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Many readers who are otherwise passionate about culture have little time for music writing, irritated that it speaks in abstract, jargon-stuffed language&#8230;.This has always been an issue for music magazines, but traditionally they&#8217;ve been able to make it an asset, too. One of the most important historical functions of music magazines has been <i>precisely<\/i> to speak in a semisecret language that separates in-the-know us from square them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sample from this morning&#8217;s Slate article on the death of music magazines (sniff). The full article is definitely worth a read, but I think the high point was the line &#8220;there&#8217;s dancing about architecture, you see, and then there&#8217;s hyperventilating about crap.&#8221; Touch\u00c3\u00a9, my friend. Meanwhile, reason #3 music mags are doomed: Music magazines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}