{"id":999,"date":"2012-06-23T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2012-06-23T19:12:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T00:12:45","slug":"weekly-observations-2012-weeks-23-and-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/archives\/999","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Observations: 2012 Weeks 23 and 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I wanted to mention that normal posting has resumed and I should be releasing a new review every week or two again.  To kick things off, I posted a review of Planetary Nights&#8217; album <a href=\"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/album\/Today%20Ain%27t%20Too%20Late.php\"><em>Today Ain&#8217;t Too Late<\/em><\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>w00t! My Megadeth <a href=\"http:\/\/megafanclub.megadeth.com\/index.php\">Cyber Army<\/a> membership package arrived!  I like this year&#8217;s shirt much better than the one from last year and the two unplugged albums are much better than I anticipated.  Who would have thought that Megadeth would work well unplugged.<\/p>\n<p>Lifehacker posted 10 ways to &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5920349\/top-10-ways-to-upgrade-your-music-listening-experience\">upgrade your music-listening experience<\/a>&quot;.  While some of these ideas are common sense such as choosing a balance in your bitrate, others are less obvious.  The post is definitely worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of things worth checking out, Ice-T&#8217;s interview on NPR was enlightening.<\/p>\n<p>What did you find enlightening, exciting, or aggravating in the music world this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I wanted to mention that normal posting has resumed and I should be releasing a new review every week or two again. To kick things off, I posted a review of Planetary Nights&#8217; album Today Ain&#8217;t Too Late last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,294,17,12,15,602],"tags":[669,670,309,675],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-news","category-rant","category-reviews","category-music-services","category-weekly-observations","tag-cyber-army","tag-lifehacker","tag-megadeth","tag-planetary-nights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}