{"id":14757,"date":"2017-09-03T16:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=14757"},"modified":"2017-09-03T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:27:15","slug":"more-on-sd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=14757","title":{"rendered":"More on SD&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just can&#8217;t get over the fact that Walter died&#8230;.and I thought I needed to write more about it today&#8230;so, I will&#8230;Donald and Walter have been such a big part of my musical life since the 70&#8217;s that this is going to leave a hole there&#8230;I know the music will still be there but it&#8217;s like when John Entwhistle died the week before I was to see the Who here in GR&#8230;there&#8217;s just something less in the world knowing they&#8217;re gone&#8230;knowing that I&#8217;ll never again be surprised when I take the wrapper off a new SD disc and some new theme or lyric makes me smile&#8230;.whenever I need to be soothed, whenever I need music to help quiet my brain when things aren&#8217;t going exactly right, I put on my SD playlists that I have heard a thousand times and I always feel better&#8230;Whenever I hear Doctor Wu and the emotions of loss and despair get replaced by elation by the end of the song, I am there waiting for Katy&#8230;that is the magic of Donald and Walter to me&#8230;that I can still be transported to other worlds with their story songs&#8230;and I grieve that there will not be any more of them&#8230;a sad, sad, day&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just can&#8217;t get over the fact that Walter died&#8230;.and I thought I needed to write more about it today&#8230;so, I will&#8230;Donald and Walter have been such a big part of my musical life since the 70&#8217;s that this is going to leave a hole there&#8230;I know the music will still be there but it&#8217;s like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=14757\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on SD&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[332,53,1731],"class_list":["post-14757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-donald-fagen","tag-steely-dan","tag-walter-becker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14758,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions\/14758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}