{"id":11,"date":"2005-06-15T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T19:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=11"},"modified":"2005-06-15T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T19:13:14","slug":"launching_rifftides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/06\/launching_rifftides\/","title":{"rendered":"Launching Rifftides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day of this new web log about jazz and, as its subtitle proclaims, other matters. At the top of the right-hand column you will find a sort of manifesto, below that information about the proprietor. Farther down the right-hand column under &#8220;Doug&#8217;s Picks&#8221; are things I like that I hope you will like. I want this to be not merely a blog, but a diablog, so please respond with reactions. Your participation will be at least half the fun. There is an e-mail address under &#8220;Contact&#8221; in the right-hand column. My intention is to post every weekday, and weekends when the spirit or events move me.<br \/>\nLaunching this venture, I would like to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/index.shtml\"target=\"_blank\">Terry Teachout<\/a>, who suggested blogging as an alternative or supplement to the print straitjacket, and  <em>ArtsJournal<\/em> commander Doug McLennan, who agreed to give <em>Rifftides<\/em> a home and helped me build it. Doug&#8217;s a wizard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day of this new web log about jazz and, as its subtitle proclaims, other matters. At the top of the right-hand column you will find a sort of manifesto, below that information about the proprietor. Farther down the right-hand column under &#8220;Doug&#8217;s Picks&#8221; are things I like that I hope you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}