{"id":42738,"date":"2011-06-10T17:25:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T21:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/42738\/cost-pure-joy\/"},"modified":"2011-06-10T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T21:25:24","slug":"cost-pure-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/42738\/cost-pure-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"the cost of pure joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">the new car stereo is IN, there was some hassle AND added cost&#8230;is it worth it? ABSOLUTELY (so far)&#8230;Satellite radio capability might have been nice; but the whole point is to be able to play my iPod&#8211;and I can&#8230;and CDs too, though new ones are kinda hard to find as far as I&#8217;m concerned; BEST BUY apparently doesn&#8217;t wanna deal with &#8217;em much&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">losing the ability to PLAY Music would be bad enough, being unable to HEAR it at all would be for me a living death&#8230;but for now I can enjoy the Music <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">I<\/span> like the most&#8230;you can have PROUD MARY, just gimme my RAMBLE TAMBLE&#8230;you can have your PINBALL WIZARD, just gimme my DOGS PART TWO&#8230;you can have your FOR WHAT IT&#8217;S WORTH, just gimme my DOWN TO THE WIRE (the Stills vocal version)&#8230;the trip to tonight&#8217;s gig won&#8217;t take all that long, but tomorrow afternoon I&#8217;m going up the road to Frederick; looking forward to\u00a0 that&#8230;even the CD of MY Music sounds good; it IS poorly &#8220;produced&#8221; and there are a bunch of &#8220;boo-boos&#8221;but that doesn&#8217;t matter to ME&#8230;I dunno fer sure but CDs seem to have a sonic fullness lacking in MP3s&#8230;I compared the CD recording of one of my songs with the MP3 representation of same&#8230;*I* could hear the difference&#8230;but Life is SUPER Good&#8211;for the time being, and that&#8217;s fine by me&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the new car stereo is IN, there was some hassle AND added cost&#8230;is it worth it? ABSOLUTELY (so far)&#8230;Satellite radio capability might have been nice; but the whole point is to be able to play my iPod&#8211;and I can&#8230;and CDs too, though new ones are kinda hard to find as far as I&#8217;m concerned; BEST [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}