{"id":12199,"date":"2009-06-27T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T22:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/06\/27\/12199.html"},"modified":"2009-06-27T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T22:47:56","slug":"cheering-up-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/06\/27\/cheering-up-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheering-up music?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday in the car, I was a little grumpy, and I thought to myself: \"I have a choice here: I can either nurse this grumpy mood all evening, or I can play some music that'll cheer me up.\" So I poked through the music that was easily accessible on my iPhone (connected to the car stereo system) and listened to Talisman's rendition of \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/12\/09\/10787.html\">Baba Yetu<\/a>\" (the <cite>Civilization IV<\/cite> song) and by the time I got to Kam's I was grinning.<\/p>\n<p>There are other songs that always improve my mood, too, such as Talisman's \"Hombe,\" and Lui Collins's \"Wildflower Song\" and her rendition of \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/12\/13\/11707.html\">Red Red Robin<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n<p>So what music cheers you up or otherwise lifts your mood?<\/p>\n<p>And, optional bonus question: what in particular about that music cheers you up?<\/p>\n<p>(If you'd rather talk about books or movies or food or something else that cheers you up, that's fine too, but I'm particularly curious about music.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday in the car, I was a little grumpy, and I thought to myself: &#8220;I have a choice here: I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}