{"id":61,"date":"2008-08-25T18:44:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T18:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-08-25T18:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T18:44:04","slug":"this_just_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/08\/this_just_in\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just In: The New News Sound Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"s4nn.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/s4nn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"264\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Suffering from Olympic withdrawal? Counting the minutes till the\u00c2\u00a0Democratic\u00c2\u00a0convention kick off? Just plain sick of the broken-record rotation of CNN Headline News? Whoever said that news reporting would one day be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/21\/technology\/21link.html\">distilled down to a Twitter message <\/a>needs to make a lunch date with composer\/performer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhearst.com\">Michael Hearst<\/a>. He&#8217;ll raise you one and sing it back to you. His intentionally redundant &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.songsfornewsworthynews.com\/\">Songs for Newsworthy News<\/a>&#8221; project offers subscribers sonically encapsulated reports on items of public interest&#8211;generally delivered in 30 seconds or less. <\/p>\n<p>If Hearst&#8217;s name is news to your ears, you may want to dig around in his archives a bit. He first grabbed my attention when his band, OneRingZero, embraced their lyric-writing handicap and conned a bunch of famous-authors-you-might-recognize-from-B&amp;N-bookshelves into contributing words to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneringzero.com\">ORZ music catalog<\/a>. Any fears that he was a one-trick pony were laid to rest with the release of his more-than-just-quirky\u00c2\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.songsforicecreamtrucks.com\">Songs for Ice Cream Trucks<\/a><\/i>. Clearly, Hearst is a composer with a knack for spotting obscure instances of public need. If only the D.O.T. was this efficient at filling them in.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suffering from Olympic withdrawal? Counting the minutes till the\u00c2\u00a0Democratic\u00c2\u00a0convention kick off? Just plain sick of the broken-record rotation of CNN Headline News? Whoever said that news reporting would one day be distilled down to a Twitter message needs to make a lunch date with composer\/performer Michael Hearst. He&#8217;ll raise you one and sing it back [&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-61","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\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}