{"id":1783,"date":"2012-03-26T11:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2016-03-08T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T04:06:31","slug":"oh-so-you-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/oh-so-you-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"oh so you mean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I take old folk songs and rewrite them into the Republic of Cascadia universe. That&#8217;s where &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/columbia-scene-from-a-revolution\">Columbia<\/a>&#8221; came from, for example &#8211; the first song I wrote what got covered by another artist. Sometimes I write new music, sometimes I don&#8217;t. The latest one is &#8220;High Barbaree,&#8221; which is an old song about a pirate encounter, and of course, in all traditional versions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traditionalmusic.co.uk\/sea-shanty\/High_Barbary.htm\">the pirates lose<\/a>, but that&#8217;s not the way we roll here, now, is it?<\/p>\n<p>But while I came up with a chord set I <em>really<\/em> like &#8211; yeah, this is one I&#8217;m substantially rewriting &#8211; I&#8217;d been stuck for a while on lyrics. Then last Thursday, I realised that in my version, High Barbaree is the name of the <em>ship<\/em>, not the <em>locale<\/em>, and a nice chunk of verses all came tumbling out of my brain. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now about blockade-running privateers for the Republic, and atypically cheery for me. It&#8217;s not finished, but now I see how to get there; I should have a first draft ready for nwcMUSIC 2012\/Norwescon 35. T-10 days and counting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I take old folk songs and rewrite them into the Republic of Cascadia universe. That&#8217;s where &#8220;Columbia&#8221; came from, for example &#8211; the first song I wrote what got covered by another artist. Sometimes I write new music, sometimes I don&#8217;t. The latest one is &#8220;High Barbaree,&#8221; which is an old song about a [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}