{"id":200,"date":"2004-10-08T23:22:22","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=200"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:05:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:05:31","slug":"william_shatner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/william_shatner\/","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner&#8217;s New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;More than 35 years after the release of his debut solo album, William Shatner teams up with Ben Folds to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shatnerhasbeen.com\/\">Has Been<\/a>, a surprisingly pop-driven, lyrically potent collection of songs written by the duo.  With the exception of &#8220;Trying,&#8221; co-written by Folds and novelist Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About A Boy), &#8220;Real&#8221; by Brad Paisley, and Pulp&#8217;s &#8220;Common People,&#8221; Shatner proves to be a witty and self-deprecating poet, while Folds&#8217; talent for crafting the perfect pop melody has never been more evident.&#8221;<br \/>\nHeard about this via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samandfuzzy.com\/\">Sam and Fuzzy<\/a>. Listening to the samples and interviews on Shatner&#8217;s site, the album seems really genuine. I feel really good about this; it fits. Makes me happy to see Shatner pull this off, at the right time, and in a good manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;More than 35 years after the release of his debut solo album, William Shatner teams up with Ben Folds to create Has Been, a surprisingly pop-driven, lyrically potent collection of songs written by the duo. With the exception of &#8220;Trying,&#8221; co-written by Folds and novelist Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About A Boy), &#8220;Real&#8221; by Brad [&hellip;]<\/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\/200"}],"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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}