{"id":5782,"date":"2012-10-17T13:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2012-10-17T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T18:00:27","slug":"sunken-condos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=5782","title":{"rendered":"Sunken Condos&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just made a mad dash and spent the last of my cash,&#8230;with the top down, I headed across town, to the building with the ticket on the side, and found what I was wishing for&#8230;more from Donald and a few more&#8230;okay, I know, I&#8217;ll never be Donald Fagen but I had to do something special to celebrate the release of &#8220;Sunken Condos&#8221;, Donald&#8217;s new CD&#8230;.I&#8217;m on my second run through it right now and find the themes of the songs at once the same as always but different&#8230;of course you have the old guy, young woman theme in &#8220;Slinky Thing&#8221;, how could he do a cd without a song about that? But there are twists and turns that are unexpected&#8230;in &#8220;I&#8217;m not the same without you&#8221; Donald turns the breakup song on it&#8217;s head with the breakup turning the protagonist into a superman who &#8220;grows an inch taller and has heroic escapades&#8221;. I won&#8217;t go into all of the songs, there are nine after all, but one last one I want to mention is &#8220;Memorabilia&#8221;&#8230;a song about the aftermath of the nuclear tests and even mentions one of the tests names &#8220;Castle Bravo&#8221; in it&#8230;how the hell does he come up with this stuff? It looks like, to me anyway, that Donald has done again what Donald does&#8230;slinky, funky music that has all the biting lyrics that we have come to expect&#8230;if you&#8217;re a Dan fan&#8230;give it a try&#8230;it&#8217;s already in the mp3 player for the bike ride tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just made a mad dash and spent the last of my cash,&#8230;with the top down, I headed across town, to the building with the ticket on the side, and found what I was wishing for&#8230;more from Donald and a few more&#8230;okay, I know, I&#8217;ll never be Donald Fagen but I had to do something special &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=5782\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunken Condos&#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":[332,783],"class_list":["post-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-donald-fagen","tag-sunken-condos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}