{"id":1795,"date":"2009-08-14T22:38:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T05:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2009-08-14T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T05:38:57","slug":"rifftides_is_rated_who_knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/08\/rifftides_is_rated_who_knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Rifftides Is Rated: Who Knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By way of his splendid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com\/\"target=\"_blank\"><em>JazzWax<\/em><\/a> blog, Marc Myers alerts the <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff that our little slice of bandwidth gets a bit of notice. In my naivet\u00c3\u00a9, I didn&#8217;t know there was such a thing as a blog rating service, but Marc points to Invesp Consulting. If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.invesp.com\/blog-rank\/Jazz#ultimate\"target=\"_blank\">go there<\/a>, you will see several segments in which <em>Rifftides<\/em> is rated at or near the top. We follow only Wynton Marsalis and Contemporary Jazz in &#8220;The Ultimate Rank,&#8221; place first in &#8220;Top Jazz Blogs By The Number Of Incoming Links,&#8221; place first in &#8220;Top Jazz Blogs By Google PR&#8221; (!), and rank high in several other categories, as does <em>JazzWax<\/em>. Every line in the Invesp<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/number5-thumb-128x129-9279.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for number5.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/number5-thumb-128x129-9279-thumb-128x129-9280.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"129\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span> list is a link to a blog, making it easy to use the page as a point of departure for exploring.<br \/>\nThanks to all <em>Rifftides<\/em> readers for being aboard as we navigate the tides, shoals and high seas of our fifth year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of his splendid JazzWax blog, Marc Myers alerts the Rifftides staff that our little slice of bandwidth gets a bit of notice. In my naivet\u00c3\u00a9, I didn&#8217;t know there was such a thing as a blog rating service, but Marc points to Invesp Consulting. If you go there, you will see several segments [&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-1795","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\/1795","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=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}