{"id":970,"date":"2009-09-14T19:14:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T02:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2009-09-15T19:34:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T02:34:27","slug":"favorite-video-of-the-week-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Video of the Week: About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IUzETUGzITY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IUzETUGzITY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong>About-Think Miles Drink<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not sure if the band <a href=\"http:\/\/whataboutabout.com\/home.php?nav=2\">About<\/a> is still around but they made some pretty awesome music while they were in existence. The glitchy mash-up of styles works in this song. There&#8217;s a pop-ey cleverness to their music &#8211; it sounds fun, lively and inspired.<br \/>\nBy the way, I&#8217;ve had three of the jobs featured in this video: record store clerk, barista and book seller.<\/p>\n<p>After writing to the band to see if they were still around, I got this response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thank you!<br \/>\nNo, we&#8217;re not playing at the moment&#8230; spending 24\/7 in the studio in Berlin to finish the new record. Shows will start again in January!<br \/>\nAll the best!<br \/>\nRutger &#8211; About<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yay! Looking forward to seeing them play live one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About-Think Miles Drink Not sure if the band About is still around but they made some pretty awesome music while they were in existence. The glitchy mash-up of styles works in this song. There&#8217;s a pop-ey cleverness to their music &#8211; it sounds fun, lively and inspired. By the way, I&#8217;ve had three of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite Video of the Week: About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}