{"id":154,"date":"2008-04-01T07:41:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T15:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-04-01T07:41:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T15:41:50","slug":"i-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2008\/04\/01\/i-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"I Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After many days spent contemplating, I&#8217;ve decided to quit writing for Evolving Music. It&#8217;s not to say that the time spent here was not well spent, because it most certainly was, but I just don&#8217;t see any feasible way to keep writing when my passion for it isn&#8217;t there. For months now, I&#8217;ve brought you posts about the music industry, <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/19\/the-odd-couple\/\">Gnarls Barkley<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/10\/somewhere-over-the-rainbow\/\">Radiohead<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/13\/ghosts-i-iv\/\">NIN<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/10\/immortal-technique-at-the-fillmore\/\">Immortal Technique<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/03\/amplive-interview\/\">AmpLive<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/24\/emerald-city-on-the-map\/\">Blue Scholars<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/29\/throw-me-the-statue-at-the-great-american-music-hall\/\">Throw Me the Statue<\/a>, just to name a few. I&#8217;ve ranted and raved against <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/15\/dont-idolize\/\">American Idol<\/a> and the pop music landscape, while attempting to boost an agenda of underground resurgence and <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/02\/record-execs-stupid-or-just-plain-greedy\/\">backlash against the powers that be<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s just too much now. The pressure of weekly trying to come up with new posts and topics to captivate the mind and soul has taken a toll on me. I&#8217;m weary with my struggle and want to go back to the days when I could put a CD on and just listen, not jot down my notes for the album review. I&#8217;d like to revisit the days when my friends from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">MixMatchMusic<\/a> were just my friends, and not my bosses. In short, I want it to all go back to the way it was.<\/p>\n<p>So I bid adieu to you, fine readers, and in this, my final post, I wish you a very happy April Fool&#8217;s Day. Blue Scholars and GZA tonight at the Independent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many days spent contemplating, I&#8217;ve decided to quit writing for Evolving Music. It&#8217;s not to say that the time spent here was not well spent, because it most certainly was, but I just don&#8217;t see any feasible way to keep writing when my passion for it isn&#8217;t there. For months now, I&#8217;ve brought you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[110,117,262,753,867,1211,1312,1476],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}