{"id":103,"date":"2008-10-07T18:18:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-10-07T18:18:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:18:26","slug":"whos_driving_this_bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/10\/whos_driving_this_bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s driving this bus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Composer-performer Caleb Burhans got a 2-and-change page print-edition, 4 page online edition, bonafide Allan Kozinn profile in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/05\/arts\/music\/05kozi.html?ref=music\"><i>The New York Times<\/i><\/a> on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>As of 6:15pm today, he had a total of 58 plays on his <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=44070222\">MySpace page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caleb-MySpace.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/Caleb-MySpace.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"353\" width=\"450\" \/><\/span>Does this mean 1. MySpace is dead. 2. The <i>Times<\/i> has no influence over its readers&#8217; listening choices. 3. Both.<\/p>\n<p>And if the answer is both, then who or what in this world is actually influencing what music people buy, see and listen to?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in <i>The New York Times, <\/i>and all I got was these lousy 58 plays.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>[The article did not actually link to the MySpace page, but then can we assume that people will not even Google an artist after reading a massive <i>New York Times <\/i>feature?&nbsp; Have we become so lazy\/disaffected that we can only click-through to where a hyperlink points us?] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer-performer Caleb Burhans got a 2-and-change page print-edition, 4 page online edition, bonafide Allan Kozinn profile in The New York Times on Sunday. As of 6:15pm today, he had a total of 58 plays on his MySpace page. Does this mean 1. MySpace is dead. 2. The Times has no influence over its readers&#8217; listening [&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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}