{"id":1602,"date":"2007-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.draumrpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2012-10-12T10:07:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T14:07:32","slug":"music-or-making-ears-bleed-for-fun-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/2007\/05\/15\/music-or-making-ears-bleed-for-fun-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Music, or Making Ears Bleed for Fun &amp; Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s documented that I listen to some music that isn&#8217;t for the faint of heart. More like&#8230;the hard of hearing. It is true that I like a number of bands whose names denote such things as hanging (Slipknot) the death toll of nuclear war (Megadeth) bovine-originated diseases (Anthrax) or just really ominious things (like: Into Eternity, Fear Factory, Nine Inch Nails&#8230;. the list goes on)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve developed my musical tastes over a good long period. Before High School I never really had a definitive taste in music. It took my cousin and my uncle to get me on a course&#8230; and now these years later my tastes have broadened, but they still contain a lot of gems that I first learned way back then.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s jarring to some that I can go from really hard, fast aggressive music (like almost any of the above bands) to softer melodic music like Tori Amos, Imogen Heap, even Enya. And then into nerdcore rap like MC Frontalot or Optimus Rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>I manage. I&#8217;m thinking broad. My head is too big to be limited to any single genre or style, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s documented that I listen to some music that isn&#39;t for the faint of heart.  More like&#8230;the hard of hearing.  It is true that I like a number of bands whose names denote such things as hanging (Slipknot) the death toll of nuclear war (Megadeth) bovine-originated diseases (Anthrax) or just really ominious things (like: Into Eternity,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-single-img"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}