{"id":8658,"date":"2016-02-12T13:32:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2016-02-12T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:45:11","slug":"its-tax-prep-weekend-and-how-can-this-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/12\/its-tax-prep-weekend-and-how-can-this-be-true\/","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s tax prep weekend and how can this be true?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tax prep weekend! Well, for us at the Lair, anyway. So that&#8217;s where I&#8217;ll be for the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>There is a good part: you stumble across fun reminders, like receipts for cosplay supplies, mixed in with all the boring things. They&#8217;re little happy moments. ^_^<\/p>\n<p>(What, you don&#8217;t think supervillains pay taxes? Damn right we do. We&#8217;re not stupid. That&#8217;s how they got Capone, and unlike <em>some<\/em> people I could mention, <em>some<\/em> of us can <em>learn<\/eM> from history.)<\/p>\n<p>A disturbing related stat I read last night: 75% of the iTunes music library has <em>never been downloaded<\/em>. Not ever, not even once. I&#8217;m&#8230; kind of disturbed by that. Whenever I get discouraged, I should remember this number, because hey, apparently I&#8217;m at least ahead of <em>75% of bands who have managed to get albums recorded and online<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t even put <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/collection-the-free-tracks\/\">my free tracks<\/a> on iTunes, because y&#8217;can&#8217;t! iTunes is pay only! (<a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/thirteen\">But you can get the new free\/tip jar single, &#8220;Thirteen,&#8221; off Bandcamp just fine right now<\/a>. ^_^) So I guess that&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to sorting zillions of little pieces of paper, all alike. See you next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tax prep weekend! Well, for us at the Lair, anyway. So that&#8217;s where I&#8217;ll be for the next few days. There is a good part: you stumble across fun reminders, like receipts for cosplay supplies, mixed in with all the boring things. They&#8217;re little happy moments. ^_^ (What, you don&#8217;t think supervillains pay taxes? [&#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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-of-indie-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","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=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8669,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/8669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}