{"id":137,"date":"2002-09-27T16:33:15","date_gmt":"2002-09-27T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=137"},"modified":"2002-09-27T16:33:15","modified_gmt":"2002-09-27T20:33:15","slug":"when-the-musics-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"When the Music&#8217;s Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Densmore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20020708&#038;s=densmore\">congratulates himself<\/a> for not selling Doors songs for ads. This irks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourish.com\/archives\/2002\/sep22-28_2002.html#2002092702\">Meryl Yourish<\/a>, understandably. Meryl objects that Densmore oughtn&#8217;t to preen himself about his integrity when it matters not one whit to his financial security whether he sells the back catalog or not. Still, I&#8217;m happy he didn&#8217;t sell it even though I&#8217;d be happier if he could shut up about it. It is irritating to read John Densmore; it is far more irritating to begin to associate a song that I&#8217;ve always liked, like &#8220;Locomotive Breath,&#8221; with a product about which I&#8217;ve always been indifferent, like Miller Genuine Draft. That&#8217;s the real point, not whether we&#8217;ll all buy more Jaguars because of Sting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Densmore congratulates himself for not selling Doors songs for ads. This irks Meryl Yourish, understandably. Meryl objects that Densmore oughtn&#8217;t to preen himself about his integrity when it matters not one whit to his financial security whether he sells the back catalog or not. Still, I&#8217;m happy he didn&#8217;t sell it even though I&#8217;d <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=137' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}