{"id":842,"date":"2009-03-04T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=842"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:12:05","slug":"its-not-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/03\/its-not-the-end-of-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not The End Of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyle Gann has reluctantly closed down his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/postclassic\/2009\/02\/end_of_an_experiment.html\">PostClassic Radio<\/a> internet station.  It&#8217;s a pity: over the past few years it&#8217;s been a superb way to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kylegann.com\/postclassicradio.html\">hundreds of pieces of great music<\/a> by composers who don&#8217;t fit into the standard pigeonholes of &#8220;modern classical&#8221; or whatever you want to call that stuff.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I can&#8217;t blame him. It&#8217;s not as if he doesn&#8217;t have other things to do besides update and maintain that service; and there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;d spend hundreds of dollars each year on letting everyone hear <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">other people&#8217;s<\/span> music.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides, over PostClassic Radio&#8217;s five years of existence a number of other internet resources have arisen (and some have fallen again).  Although it will be missed, there are more ways today than when it started, of exploring a wider range of music, by hook or by crook.  Even when a corporate behemoth crushes a technological innovation that gives people what they want, an alternative soon emerges.  Goodbye Muxtape, hello Seeqpod &#8211; or whatever becomes next week&#8217;s vehicle of choice for sharing music.  The situation will remain in flux but still active, as long as we can access the means of distribution.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Gann has reluctantly closed down his PostClassic Radio internet station. It&#8217;s a pity: over the past few years it&#8217;s been a superb way to hear hundreds of pieces of great music by composers who don&#8217;t fit into the standard pigeonholes of &#8220;modern classical&#8221; or whatever you want to call that stuff. I can&#8217;t blame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}