{"id":892,"date":"2007-04-11T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=892"},"modified":"2007-04-11T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T08:05:00","slug":"blogging_blogging_blogging_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/04\/blogging_blogging_blogging_on\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging, Blogging, Blogging On The River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Rifftides <\/em>staff offers a belated welcome to Larry Blumenfeld, a new <em>artsjournal.com<\/em> blogger who recently launched <em>Listen Good: Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and other sounds.<\/em> Blumenfeld, a New Yorker, has established a three-months residency in New Orleans. He is covering efforts of the jazz community&#8211;and the city at large&#8211;to make a comeback in the face of daunting odds dealt more by man than by nature.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyone in New Orleans will offer stern correction should you refer to Katrina as a &#8220;natural disaster.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd anyone involved in the city&#8217;s culture will point out the many unnatural barriers that have popped up in Katrina&#8217;s wake.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d think that New Orleans would welcome back the communities and establishments that anchor its culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not so, Blumenfeld says.  To read the whole thing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/listengood\/\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<br \/>\nCynthia Joyce has been blogging for <em>artsjournal.com<\/em> from New Orleans a little longer than Blumenfeld. Her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturegulf\/\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Culture Gulf<\/em><\/a> (an inspired title) can be read as a companion piece to <em>Listen Good<\/em>. As a  former Orleanian whose heart still beats in the bend of the river, I frequently visit both, wishing that I were there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rifftides staff offers a belated welcome to Larry Blumenfeld, a new artsjournal.com blogger who recently launched Listen Good: Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and other sounds. Blumenfeld, a New Yorker, has established a three-months residency in New Orleans. He is covering efforts of the jazz community&#8211;and the city at large&#8211;to make a comeback in [&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-892","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\/892","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=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}