{"id":1620,"date":"2009-08-29T02:26:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T09:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2009-09-26T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:59:07","slug":"smashproof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/smashproof\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashproof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now I&#8217;m really digging a hip-hop group from New Zealand, called Smashproof, whose songs seem to not have made it here to the US yet, but I think they would do quite well if they do show up here. They have a few hits in New Zealand, including <em>Brother<\/em>, and <em>Weekend<\/em>, but my favorite song is <em>Ordinary Life, <\/em>which you can find on <a href=\"http:\/\/songza.fm\/~cuitu9\">Songza <\/a>(and precious few other places). Particular poignant to me is how the extended version of that song ends, partially transcribed here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You don&#8217;t get nothing from nothing, meaning you have to put something into it to get something out and even though it may seem hard and you&#8217;re unsure what you need, you gotta look to your past. Look to your past, and if you don&#8217;t want your future to become a shadow of your past then you&#8217;ve got to do something at this present moment in time to change that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our ancestors weren&#8217;t followers. They weren&#8217;t followers. Mom and dad, our grandfathers, they weren&#8217;t followers. You think about it. They came here for a better future for you. A better future for you. They left their homeland.\u00c2\u00a0 They left their parents, their family to come here for a better life for you. Its your turn. It&#8217;s your turn to man up. Break the cycle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can make this work&#8230; Take a good look at yourself and ask the hard question: am I really willing to change?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now I&#8217;m really digging a hip-hop group from New Zealand, called Smashproof, whose songs seem to not have made it here to the US yet, but I think they would do quite well if they do show up here. They have a few hits in New Zealand, including Brother, and Weekend, but my favorite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-music","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}