{"id":11504,"date":"2016-06-19T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11504"},"modified":"2016-06-19T21:09:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T20:09:03","slug":"music-challenge-day-192016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11504","title":{"rendered":"Music Challenge: Day 19\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A song I listen to when I&#8217;m\u00a0sad<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wow, this is difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Would I listen to this song, in a state of sadness, to cheer myself up?<\/p>\n<p>Or would I listen to it to wallow in a pit of moroseness?<\/p>\n<p>Well actually the answer is both.<\/p>\n<p>If I felt like it, I would listen to a downbeat song to wallow a little.<\/p>\n<p>And I would listen to an upbeat song to kick my arse out of the mood.<\/p>\n<p>So which of the upbeat and driven songs, or which of the downbeat and mellow songs will I choose?<\/p>\n<p>The downbeat song I listen to when I&#8217;m feeling sad is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wXP4D_hCfqw\" target=\"_blank\">Live With Me by Massive Attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My upbeat\/driven song is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Gd9OhYroLN0\" target=\"_blank\">Crawling by Linkin Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wait.<\/p>\n<p>No it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>Not today it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s song that I would listen to if I was sad (I&#8217;m not) is Leave Me Alone (I&#8217;m Lonely) by Pink.<\/p>\n<p>And instead of the original version, try this cover which is being given an airing by a young guitarist with skillz.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CQxLrKXiwx0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song I listen to when I&#8217;m\u00a0sad &nbsp; Wow, this is difficult. Would I listen to this song, in a state of sadness, to cheer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}