{"id":920,"date":"2017-12-12T02:11:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2017-12-12T02:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:11:14","slug":"in-songwriter-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"In songwriter-mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irene writes,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn a recent blog post, Gary Ewer mentions Bob Dylan&#8217;s analogy for describing a good song: &#8216;It should be able to \u201cwalk by itself.\u201d A good song has life. It has an identity, and it exists long after someone sings it.&#8217; (source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretsofsongwriting.com\/2017\/12\/11\/good-songwriting-and-objective-listening\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.secretsofsongwriting.com<\/a>)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m hoping to write a few of those.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been in songwriter-mode for most of 2017, taking part in a year-long course with <a href=\"https:\/\/lalalab.nl\/opleiding\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lalalab<\/a> in Amsterdam and attending some songwriting camps. Not that I&#8217;ve been prolific, but I do have something to show for it.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Some recent song tiles:<\/strong><br \/>\nBe a little braver<br \/>\nDo you remember?<br \/>\nSecret garden<br \/>\nOn the other side of darkness<br \/>\nIt kills me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irene writes, &nbsp; In a recent blog post, Gary Ewer mentions Bob Dylan&#8217;s analogy for describing a good song: &#8216;It should be able to \u201cwalk by itself.\u201d A good song has life. It has an identity, and it exists long after someone sings it.&#8217; (source: www.secretsofsongwriting.com) &nbsp; I&#8217;m hoping to write a few of those. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/?p=920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In songwriter-mode&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-songwriting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2txFi-eQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twodoorsdownband.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}