{"id":8403,"date":"2015-12-08T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8403"},"modified":"2015-12-08T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:30:31","slug":"lots-of-fun-while-it-lasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/lots-of-fun-while-it-lasted\/","title":{"rendered":"lots of fun while it lasted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Grammy awards shortlist came out on Monday, and to our&#8230; oh, honestly, complete lack of surprise&#8230; we did not make the shortlist in either category in which we were nominated. (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/bone-walker\">Bone Walker<\/a><\/i> for folk album; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/kitsune-at-war-2\">Kitsune at War<\/a>&#8221; for arrangement, instrumental or a cappella.)<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well, it was tremendous fun while it lasted. But stopping here doesn&#8217;t take away that we <em>did<\/em> get a nod from an Academy member, we <em>did<\/em> get referred to the jury, we <em>did<\/em> make it <em>past<\/em> the jury, and we <em>did<\/em> become a long-list Grammy nominee.<\/p>\n<p><b>Twice.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And while the long list was the end of the road for us <em>this<\/em> year, I&#8217;m still pretty damn chuffed about making <em>that<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So thanks to everyone who had any part of any of the process, and hey &#8211; I&#8217;m finally starting to lay down my first new tracks in a while. Let&#8217;s see what happens next year. Because y&#8217;know what? <em>We ain&#8217;t done here.<\/eM><\/p>\n<p>(Is there a Grammy Losers party? There should totally be a Grammy Losers party.)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Use cyber2015 at checkout for 20% off all music, including<\/i> Bone Walker, <i>the long-list Grammy Award nominated album. If you&#8217;re with the academy, <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/for-your-consideration\/\">thank you for listening, and for your consideration<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Grammy awards shortlist came out on Monday, and to our&#8230; oh, honestly, complete lack of surprise&#8230; we did not make the shortlist in either category in which we were nominated. (Bone Walker for folk album; &#8220;Kitsune at War&#8221; for arrangement, instrumental or a cappella.) Ah, well, it was tremendous fun while it lasted. [&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403","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=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}