{"id":3494,"date":"2016-05-15T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2016-05-15T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T10:48:10","slug":"the-teardrop-describes-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2016\/05\/15\/the-teardrop-describes-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"The Teardrop Describes Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning with the band name &#8220;The Teardrop Explodes&#8221; stuck in my mind. I knew they were from the early eighties, but frustratingly, I couldn&#8217;t remember their music. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Teardrop_Explodes\">Wikipedia came to the rescue.<\/a> Their biggest hit, of course, was &#8220;Reward&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dNHc56y0POU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dNHc56y0POU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I was reading the article, the name <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Winstanley\">&#8220;Alan Winstanley&#8221;<\/a> jumped out at me. I recognized the name, but couldn&#8217;t figure out why it was so familiar. Reading his wikipedia page didn&#8217;t help in that regard, but it did show that he had produced the album <i>Please Describe Yourself<\/i> by Dogs Die In Hot Cars, <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/02\/05\/2004-in-review-music\/\">one of my favourite albums from 2004<\/a>, which is what I&#8217;ve been listening to this morning.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Please Describe Yourself\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4d8KFuCZK2KEAs6E9jHm31?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dogs Die In Hot Cars - I Love You &#039;Cause I Have To\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AeywCfxYcas?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning with the band name &#8220;The Teardrop Explodes&#8221; stuck in my mind. I knew they were from the early eighties, but frustratingly, I couldn&#8217;t remember their music. Wikipedia came to the rescue. Their biggest hit, of course, was &#8220;Reward&#8221;: As I was reading the article, the name &#8220;Alan Winstanley&#8221; jumped out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2016\/05\/15\/the-teardrop-describes-itself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Teardrop Describes Itself&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-music","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3499,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}