{"id":948,"date":"2011-12-23T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2011-12-23T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T17:48:09","slug":"weekly-observations-2011-weeks-50-and-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/archives\/948","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Observations: 2011 Weeks 50 and 51"},"content":{"rendered":"

I apologize for not posting this last weekend, but my web host had been hacked and was wiping, backing up, and reinstalling so this blog was down. So this weekend, I am posting my observations from the last two weeks!<\/p>\n

On NPR, I learned about Tuba thefts from schools in California. My question is how does someone sneak out with a tuba – let alone a number of them? I mean, have you seen them? They are huge! And seriously, kids have enough issues without having their instruments stolen.<\/p>\n

eMusic issued a $5.00 credit for those who logged in between November 17th and December 9th as thanks for their patience during the transition to the new layout.<\/p>\n

There is a free 6 song sampler<\/a> from the soundtrack for the new version of "The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo".<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, I received an e-mail from Google Music stating that they had a number of albums of sale for $4.99 and tracks on sale for $0.49. I checked their site to see what they were offering since it was the same price per track as eMusic usually charges. While perusing their selection, I noticed that a 9 song album was selling for $0.49 per track and $4.99 for the whole album. If you bough each track individually, you would save $0.58; isn’t this the opposite of how buying a collection instead of purchasing piecemeal normally works?<\/p>\n

Hopefully I will actually be able to post next week at the regularly scheduled time. With New Years though, it may be slightly late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I apologize for not posting this last weekend, but my web host had been hacked and was wiping, backing up, and reinstalling so this blog was down. So this weekend, I am posting my observations from the last two weeks! On NPR, I learned about Tuba thefts from schools in California. My question is how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,602],"tags":[394,605,606,603,607],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-services","category-weekly-observations","tag-emusic","tag-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo","tag-google","tag-npr","tag-tuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}