{"id":36601,"date":"2013-06-05T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36601"},"modified":"2013-06-05T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:24:50","slug":"the-six-degrees-of-neil-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36601","title":{"rendered":"The Six Degrees Of Neil Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve discovered &#8220;IHeartRadio&#8221;&#8216;s music stations feature; you enter an artist, set a lev of familiarity (so the system plays song by artists more or less closely stylistically related to your selected artist), and let the music roll. <\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s cool.  Seriously.  <\/p>\n<p>But every artist I entered &#8211; Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, Marah, Richard Thompson, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Sam and Dave &#8211; all led, within half a dozen songs, to one Neil Young song or another. <\/p>\n<p>Neil Young is the number 42 of pop music (in the Douglass Adams rather than Jackie Robinson senses of the word.  Er, number). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve discovered &#8220;IHeartRadio&#8221;&#8216;s music stations feature; you enter an artist, set a lev of familiarity (so the system plays song by artists more or less closely stylistically related to your selected artist), and let the music roll. And it&#8217;s cool. Seriously. But every artist I entered &#8211; Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36603,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601\/revisions\/36603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}