{"id":1692,"date":"2005-08-21T00:02:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T00:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2005-08-21T00:02:05","modified_gmt":"2005-08-21T00:02:05","slug":"the_ballads_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"The Ballads of Richard Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4807386&#038;sourceCode=RSS\">All Things Considered<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The world British singer-songwriter Richard Thompson creates is so vivid it feels as if you&#8217;re in the company of the characters he chronicles: bikers, schoolyard bullies, dreamers, lovers and losers.<br \/>\nFor nearly four decades, Thompson has performed and recorded a wide variety of music, from traditional folk songs to rock-and roll.<br \/>\nHis latest effort is Front Parlour Ballads, a mostly acoustic work recorded in a small studio in his garage.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>audio<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Things Considered: The world British singer-songwriter Richard Thompson creates is so vivid it feels as if you&#8217;re in the company of the characters he chronicles: bikers, schoolyard bullies, dreamers, lovers and losers. For nearly four decades, Thompson has performed and recorded a wide variety of music, from traditional folk songs to rock-and roll. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}