{"id":306,"date":"2009-12-22T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=306"},"modified":"2009-12-22T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:26:00","slug":"hurricanes-and-cyclones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/12\/22\/hurricanes-and-cyclones\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes and Cyclones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Over the past six months I&#8217;ve been sampling and even obsessing over a couple recent albums. Last year I listened to Jon Foreman, The Weepies, and Kings of Leon nearly exclusively. Over the summer I could only listen to Neko Case&#8217;s <i>Fox Confessor Brings the Flood<\/i>. Recently, we&#8217;ve been listening to a fair bit of Regina Spektor since our pastor preached on one of her songs (<i>Laughing With<\/i>).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But the really amazing albums are a couple new releases from this fall:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/helloh.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Switchfoot&#8217;s <i>Hello Hurricane<\/i> features some electric grinding tunes (<i>Mess of Me<\/i>, <i>The Sound (John M. Perkins&#8217; Blues)<\/i> and the title track) along with their signature introspective ballads (<i>Yet<\/i>, <i>Sing it Out<\/i>). Jon Foreman delivers song writing to the same caliber he did on his seasons EPs and the band keeps the same Switchfoot sound they&#8217;ve built a following on. Gorgeous music!<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/middlec.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Neko Case, my music crush for the summer, released Middle Cyclone last winter, but I had to digest Fox Confessor before moving forward in her albums. While her older stuff has a quite a bit of country influence, her new stuff is more alt-folk. Some great new anthems from this diva.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past six months I&#8217;ve been sampling and even obsessing over a couple recent albums. Last year I listened to Jon Foreman, The Weepies, and Kings of Leon nearly exclusively. Over the summer I could only listen to Neko Case&#8217;s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Recently, we&#8217;ve been listening to a fair bit of &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/12\/22\/hurricanes-and-cyclones\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-306","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-music","9":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}