{"id":696,"date":"2008-12-22T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T11:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp\/2008\/12\/let_nothing_you_dismay.html"},"modified":"2008-12-22T11:19:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T11:19:17","slug":"let_nothing_you_dismay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/2008\/12\/let_nothing_you_dismay.html","title":{"rendered":"Let nothing you dismay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that would be a tall order&#8230; but this is just a thank you to the kind people who have nominated the blog in the end-of-year survey initiated by our immensely sparky neighbour at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/12\/2008-best-of-publicity-and-mar.html\">Life&#8217;s a Pitch<\/a>. I&#8217;m very chuffed indeed. Not sure if, although we do discuss lyric art forms here, that this is exactly a music blog, but it would be wrong to quibble. Anyone who wants to cast a vote can do so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/01\/contact-me.html\">here<\/a>, apparently&#8230;<br \/>\nIt has been a blast writing all manner of stuff here in the past weeks, and getting some enthusiastic and provoking responses. Critics often don&#8217;t get comments, so often try to generate our own artificial food for thought. However, I really feel that I&#8217;m getting some valuable nutrients from you. Realise that the lofty claims I initially made for regular structured items on the blog quickly went for a burton &#8211; structure is less important than stimulation, I now feel, so will be less controlfreaky about the whole thing next year. Merry festive thoughts, one and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that would be a tall order&#8230; but this is just a thank you to the kind people who have nominated the blog in the end-of-year survey initiated by our immensely sparky neighbour at Life&#8217;s a Pitch. I&#8217;m very chuffed indeed. Not sure if, although we do discuss lyric art forms here, that this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/performancemonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}