{"id":201,"date":"2005-03-13T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/03\/new-moon-blue-note\/"},"modified":"2005-03-13T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-13T21:43:00","slug":"new-moon-blue-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/03\/new-moon-blue-note\/","title":{"rendered":"New Moon Blue Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we passed the new moon.. you can see it now<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/newmoonmarch05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the <b><i><font COLOR=BLUE>blue note<\/font><\/i><\/b> comes from slavery<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s crucial this note. it&#8217;s from an african scale. <\/p>\n<p>the music we all know and love mostly comes from the hybrid of african slave music with english folk music and church music. crazy as it seems the music that is most vital in our culture comes from this appalling crime mankind did to itself.<\/p>\n<p>everything from rock and roll to funk to jazz to reggae to salsa to 2-step to dancehall to mambo to rap to shall I carry on?<\/p>\n<p>the <font COLOR=BLUE><i>blue note<\/i><\/font> is a mournful note, though it celebrates every moment of our lives<\/p>\n<p>the blue note<br \/>is <br \/><b><font COLOR=BLUE SIZE=7><i>soul<\/i><\/font><\/b><br \/>the working of spirit<br \/>an energy that flows from the beginning to the end of time<br \/>and <br \/>it&#8217;s a near universally understood language<br \/>even in this strange rapidly homogenising world culture<br \/>we<br \/>create<\/p>\n<p>this is the place i am now<\/p>\n<p>hitting the blue note<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we passed the new moon.. you can see it now the blue note comes from slavery it&#8217;s crucial this note. it&#8217;s from an african scale. the music we all know and love mostly comes from the hybrid of african slave music with english folk music and church music. crazy as it seems the music that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}