{"id":1164,"date":"2008-08-19T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/08\/19\/grooving-the-lily\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T05:22:00","slug":"grooving-the-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/08\/19\/grooving-the-lily\/","title":{"rendered":"Grooving the Lily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get your fill of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groovelily.com\/store\/songs\/\">GrooveLily songs<\/a> at the band&#8217;s new WordPress-based web site!  If that page reminds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/store\/downloads\/\">Jonathan Coulton&#8217;s MP3 Store<\/a>, well, it&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">a good thing<\/span>.  I think all musicians should post free listening samples online, and offer DRM-free downloads for purchase at a reasonable price.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, that&#8217;s a good strategy for any independent artist these days.  Repeat after me:  &#8220;The Internet is my friend.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openp2p.com\/lpt\/a\/3015\">Obscurity is worse than piracy.<\/a>  Fans are not the enemy.&#8221;  All other things being equal, I am far more likely to buy your product if you treat me with respect.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your fill of GrooveLily songs at the band&#8217;s new WordPress-based web site! If that page reminds of Jonathan Coulton&#8217;s MP3 Store, well, it&#8217;s a good thing. I think all musicians should post free listening samples online, and offer DRM-free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-sci-tech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}