{"id":21,"date":"2011-02-23T23:35:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T23:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-02-25T19:23:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T19:23:19","slug":"soulwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"soulwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.ameliamason.com\/2011\/02\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58\" title=\"adele\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.ameliamason.com\/2011\/02\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/2011\/02\/images.jpeg 264w, http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/2011\/02\/images-150x108.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>Not that she needs need my help, but I&#8217;m posting a little plug for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adele.tv\/home\">Adele<\/a> here, whose new album, <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/21\/id420075073\">21<\/a>, is stunning. (It was released yesterday in the U.S.) No point in reviewing it; there&#8217;s a nice little piece on NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/02\/15\/133496838\/first-listen-adele-21\">First Listen<\/a>, which as of this moment still offers the whole album streaming for free.\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/02\/18\/133687905\/adele-tiny-desk-concert\">Tiny Desk Concert<\/a> is worth checking out, too.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t argue with the critics that say, vocal prowess notwithstanding, she still has a long way to go as a lyricist. But that&#8217;s kind of like saying Bob Dylan wasn&#8217;t a great singer &#8212; it&#8217;s sort of beside the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that she needs need my help, but I&#8217;m posting a little plug for Adele here, whose new album, 21, is stunning. (It was released yesterday in the U.S.) No point in reviewing it; there&#8217;s a nice little piece on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/?p=21\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,12,3,14,15],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-13","tag-adele","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ameliamason.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}