{"id":157,"date":"2004-07-02T01:23:34","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T01:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=157"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:05:40","slug":"chad_vangaalen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/chad_vangaalen\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Vangaalen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>It&#8217;s another prank call<br \/>\nin the middle of the night&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s another prank call<br \/>\nWhy don&#8217;t you put up a fight<br \/>\nand dream on<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flemisheye.com\/chad.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chad Vangaalen<\/a> has spent the last ten years making music by himself in his Calgary, Alberta bedroom. He just released his first album, the track <i>Clinicly Dead<\/i> of which is featured in the playlist of <a href=\"http:\/\/cbcradio3.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Radio 3&#8217;s<\/a> latest issue. And it&#8217;s beautiful and serendipitous.<br \/>\nI instantly love it. Comforting. Neil Young tone. Alt-rock distortion. And well, inspiring lyrics. Another example of hard work. These people don&#8217;t come out of nowhere. They just do and do and figure it out for themselves. I will buy the CD (update: I just did!), which really says something.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s another one of those finds, when you&#8217;re not really trying. Music you want to drive alone to at night. All my favourite music makes me want to drive alone at night. And it&#8217;s been a dry hiatus music-wise these past four months, having the stereo turned off to save memory, to concentrate on my work, and you don&#8217;t even realize you&#8217;ve gone so long without it.<br \/>\nAnd then I wake up. A friend MSN&#8217;d last night looking for new music and so we shared. And tonight, fireworks for Canada Day, wine, cheese and a couple friends. And one friend said the same thing: he needed new music. And now I&#8217;m back in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flemisheye.com\/chad.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chad Vangaalen<\/a> has spent the last ten years making music by himself in his Calgary, Alberta bedroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}