{"id":1172,"date":"2020-07-13T22:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2020-07-13T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:40:13","slug":"the-kid-down-the-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/the-kid-down-the-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kid Down The Hall!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh hello, I hope whoever reads this (if anyone!) is healthy and safe,  I hope your family is alive and healthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time, and though I feel this strange sense of obligation to muse about the world pandemic, I&#8217;m going to resist.  There is just too much to say, and it&#8217;s a subject impossible to encompass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from playing guitar in my mom&#8217;s suburban backyard,  I haven&#8217;t done much in the way of releasing (*)  For one, my laptop broke and I&#8217;m still waiting for the parts to fix it.  But you know, I&#8217;m just going with the flow.  Circumstances will circle back, I&#8217;m confident.  For now,  I am sinking into free flow creative rushes.   Improvising and singing spontaneous lyrics in   the slivers of time I&#8217;m allowed.  It&#8217;s like a drug. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then&#8230;Just when I stop trying&#8230;.I ran into the kid a few apartments down the hall, and his face..not to brag, but&#8230;his face lit up when he saw me.  He&#8217;s about 17, really into music, an awesome drummer who plays out in all ages clubs and on the streets and subways of NYC. A music nerd, hip without trying to be. &#8220;hey, your song came up on a a playlist on Spotify, Wow, I really love it. Did you&#8230;.did you write that&#8230;like by yourself?&#8221; &#8220;which song?&#8221; &#8220;God&#8217;s God&#8221; &#8220;Yes, I wrote that all by myself&#8221;. So cute! I had to catch the ferry to Fire Island so I was on a time constraint .  It was a blessing in disguise (for him). Could you imagine if I had all the time in the world? &#8220;Yes, I wrote the song all by myself, but a song is only as good as the musicians who play it. Sonny, why don&#8217;t you pull up a chair and I&#8217;ll tell you a story about a band called Moxie,  started by a bunch of young women who hung out in a magical. almost mythical seaside town called Bayville&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out God&#8217;s God on spotify <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-spotify wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: God&amp;apos;s God\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/2GgdxfzZ6ldCS1fht6qwzm?si=Q04BepDBT42Ukcb2L0GsGw&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh hello, I hope whoever reads this (if anyone!) is healthy and safe, I hope your family is alive and healthy. It&#8217;s been a long time, and though I feel this strange sense of obligation to muse about the world pandemic, I&#8217;m going to resist. There is just too much to say, and it&#8217;s a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/the-kid-down-the-hall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Kid Down The Hall!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QAwT-iU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}