{"id":92194,"date":"2012-07-08T01:12:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T05:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92194\/atlas-invisible\/"},"modified":"2012-07-08T01:12:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T05:12:22","slug":"atlas-invisible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92194\/atlas-invisible\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas Invisible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Five years ago today, I posted the video blog you&#8217;ll see here. I re-post it today because I want to get back to doing this kind of thing.   The day before this was made, I was going through some old papers and I happened across some lyrics to a song I had written some 12 years prior entitled &#8220;Atlas&#8221;&#8230; I remembered writing the song.  I remembered what it was about.  I remembered the person whom I had written it about, someone who from my POV, seemed to want to take the entire world upon his shoulders, at his own expense.  Hence the title, Atlas.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">After a dozen years, I had no recollection of the actual chords to this Atlas song, so I needed to re-write them!  At the time, I was a loan officer for Countrywide Home Loans, and spent every third weekend being the on-site mortgage consultant for folks looking to buy a condo at a place called Marina Bay in Richmond, CA.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">When I left Marina Bay, I just wandered and video blogged, with the goal of finding a cool place to sit down and songwrite.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Imagine my surprise when I found myself, by chance, on a boulevard called &#8220;Atlas Road&#8221;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">The &#8220;Invisible&#8221; part comes from the name of the techno background music, &#8220;Invisible&#8221; by Fischerspooner.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\"><object><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago today, I posted the video blog you&#8217;ll see here. I re-post it today because I want to get back to doing this kind of thing. The day before this was made, I was going through some old papers and I happened across some lyrics to a song I had written some 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,8],"tags":[5226,81,108,5555],"class_list":["post-92194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life","category-music","tag-fischerspooner","tag-joko","tag-music-2","tag-richmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92194","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=92194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}