{"id":9139,"date":"2018-02-15T21:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T05:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9139"},"modified":"2018-02-15T21:44:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T05:44:43","slug":"mike-west-launches-a-new-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/02\/mike-west-launches-a-new-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike West Launches A New Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"168\" \/>The young veteran Washington, D.C., jazz critic Mike (<em>aka<\/em> Michael J.) West took to <em>Facebook<\/em> today to make an announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am beyond thrilled to present the premiere installment of CRESCENDO IN BLUE, my new monthly jazz column for <em>Washington City Paper<\/em>.<br \/>\nYou know what deserves a dedicated column? The men, women, and music of the D.C. jazz scene. Well, now it has one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Rifftides<\/em> staff wishes Mike all the best in his new venture. To read his first entry,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/arts\/music\/blog\/20992812\/crescendo-in-blue-number-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young veteran Washington, D.C., jazz critic Mike (aka Michael J.) West took to Facebook today to make an announcement: I am beyond thrilled to present the premiere installment of CRESCENDO IN BLUE, my new monthly jazz column for Washington City Paper. You know what deserves a dedicated column? The men, women, and music of [&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-9139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139","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=9139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}