{"id":956,"date":"2013-11-28T23:37:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T23:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2017-08-31T03:20:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T03:20:25","slug":"and-freedom-tastes-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"And Freedom Tastes of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve done our last show with the Big Love Band, and I&#8217;m delighted to move beyond that phase. I awoke the day after the show with such a sense of joy and <em>freedom<\/em> that reminded me that it&#8217;s always best to follow our hearts, <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>and my heart just wasn&#8217;t in that particular project. Some of the players just couldn&#8217;t grok the originals, and without the originals, well, it just felt meaningless. As a performer, doing a song well is great, but as a songwriter &#8211; well, of course I want to sing our originals! So with a friendly nod, Brian and I are off to spend time having a bit more fun and doing other things for a while. I&#8217;m going to take some time to taste the freedom.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of things pulling me in a variety of directions: family stuff, and my other businesses, and writing new originals with Brian being certainly not the least. Let&#8217;s see where the next road leads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve done our last show with the Big Love Band, and I&#8217;m delighted to move beyond that phase. I awoke the day after the show with such a sense of joy and freedom that reminded me that it&#8217;s always best to follow our hearts,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,7],"tags":[60,220],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-love-band","category-news","tag-eugene-oregon","tag-original-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}