{"id":2087,"date":"2010-06-15T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2010-06-15T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T22:37:02","slug":"five_years_and_still_wailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/06\/five_years_and_still_wailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Years And Still Wailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/5-thumb-112x150-15717.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for 5.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/5-thumb-112x150-15717-thumb-112x150-15718.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Rifftides<\/em> began life on June 15, 2005 with this item:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><big><big>Launching Rifftides<\/big><\/big><\/strong><br \/>\nToday is the first day of this new web log about jazz and, as its subtitle proclaims, other matters. At the top of the center column you will find a sort of manifesto, below that information about the proprietor. Farther down the center 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 center 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\/\"target=\"_blank\">Terry Teachout<\/a>, who suggested blogging as an alternative or supplement to the print straitjacket, and ArtsJournal commander Doug McLennan, who agreed to give <em>Rifftides<\/em> a home and helped me build it. Doug&#8217;s a wizard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Five years on, I have the privilege of also thanking the thousands of readers who have made possible the pleasures and rewards of this venture, not the least of which is <em>Rifftides<\/em>&#8216; recognition this week as the Jazz Journalist Association&#8217;s blog of the year.<br \/>\nPlease see the part above about the importance of the diablog and join in often with your comments and observations.<br \/>\nOnward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides began life on June 15, 2005 with this item: Launching Rifftides Today is the first day of this new web log about jazz and, as its subtitle proclaims, other matters. At the top of the center column you will find a sort of manifesto, below that information about the proprietor. Farther down the center [&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-2087","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\/2087","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=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}