{"id":337,"date":"2012-04-30T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wordpress\/?p=337"},"modified":"2014-12-30T01:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T01:06:47","slug":"now-playing-in-the-summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Now Playing: In the Summertime&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>When at work, Spotify has become my new best friend, and I\u2019ve had a lot of fun putting together my own playlists. And, because I\u2019m an egotistical jerk, I thought perhaps these lists should be shared. So, if you use Spotify and would like a little new music, may I present:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the Summertime&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/audreyloopy\/playlist\/46QuRpdVCd5xHTlK2vHsQv\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>34 tracks, 2 hours<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, we had a boat. It was a 28.5&#8242; Hunter sailboat. It was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>It also had a pretty sweet soundsystem.<\/p>\n<p>And since this was back in the pre-CD R days, much more cred has to be given to my dad. The man would use our Kenwood system at home to compile these EPIC mixtapes for use as &#8220;The Boat&#8221; soundtracks. And he took it seriously. Like, used the crossfade seriously.<\/p>\n<p>I guess some really weird things are genetic, huh?<\/p>\n<p>So, in celebration of my musically-inclined and anally-retentive forbear, I present this playlist. It&#8217;s a selection of songs that featured on one or more of those carefully compiled mixtapes, along with a few others that never fail to make me think of summer. Give it a listen to hasten the arrival of the summer. Like my dad, I thought long and hard about track order (though Spotify doesn&#8217;t have a crossfade option&#8230;as far as I know), so you might want to turn off shuffle for this one.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When at work, Spotify has become my new best friend, and I\u2019ve had a lot of fun putting together my own playlists. And, because I\u2019m an egotistical jerk, I thought perhaps these lists should be shared. So, if you use Spotify and would like a little new music, may I present: In the Summertime&#8230; (link) 34 tracks, 2 hours When I was a kid, we had a boat. It was.. <a href=\"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=337\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}