{"id":396,"date":"2003-04-10T23:33:04","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T03:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/04\/when-the-mood-strikes\/"},"modified":"2003-04-10T23:33:04","modified_gmt":"2003-04-11T03:33:04","slug":"when-the-mood-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/04\/when-the-mood-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Mood Strikes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, I wanted to be a musician&#8230;somehow I ended up a software engineer&#8230;  But I actually wrote a couple of songs in high school &#8211; not great songs, but not awful either.  For some reason, on the way home from Sit &#8216;n&#8217; Knit tonight, a melody popped into my head.  And some words followed.  And now I have a full-blown chorus to a song, written out on paper <i>and<\/i> on the computer.  Weird.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, lyrics were never my strong point (probably why I stopped trying to write songs) and words for the verses are not forthcoming.  I guess I&#8217;ll just have to go to bed with a pad and pencil nearby, in case I have some major inspiration at 2 am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;otherwise, this will just stay a nice chorus jotted down on a piece of staff paper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, I wanted to be a musician&#8230;somehow I ended up a software engineer&#8230; But I actually wrote a couple of songs in high school &#8211; not great songs, but not awful either. For some reason, on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}