{"id":1264,"date":"2008-03-04T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2008-03-04T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T09:06:00","slug":"a_rifftides_makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/03\/a_rifftides_makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rifftides Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the new, improved, more functional <em>Rifftides<\/em>. <em>Artsjournal.com <\/em>commander-in-chief Doug McLennan and his team spiffed us up as the pioneer site (aka guinea pig) in reformatting all of the <em>artsjournal.com<\/em> blogs. The <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff thanks them for a dazzling makeover. <\/p>\n<p>There is a change in the comments procedure. You will still click on the &#8220;Comments&#8221; link below each item. That takes you to a simple form. After you have filled in the form, you will be asked to enter a couple of words in a box before you submit the comment. If all works as planned, that will end the tsunami of spam that has plagued us for months. The <em>Rifftides <\/em>staff encourages you to try it out. <\/p>\n<p>You may also correspond using the &#8220;Contact me&#8221; link in the first of the two right-hand columns. Either way, please let us know how you like the new <em>Rifftides<\/em>. For your celebratory opening-day bonus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicawilliams.com\/vid\/fl_nutty.html\" target=\"_blank\">click on this link<\/a> for video of a Thelonious Monk piece by pianist Jessica Williams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the new, improved, more functional Rifftides. Artsjournal.com commander-in-chief Doug McLennan and his team spiffed us up as the pioneer site (aka guinea pig) in reformatting all of the artsjournal.com blogs. The Rifftides staff thanks them for a dazzling makeover. There is a change in the comments procedure. You will still click on the [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1264","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\/1264","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=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}