{"id":764,"date":"2015-08-22T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/?p=764"},"modified":"2015-07-29T07:50:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T11:50:37","slug":"stories-behind-the-songs-burning-down-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Stories Behind the Songs: &#8220;Burning Down Both Sides&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBurning Down Both Sides\u201d is one of those songs that forced itself into my brain when I wanted to be asleep. One August night in 2012 I tossed and turned in bed with the 7\/8 guitar riff going round and round in my head; finally, at 2 AM, I decided to get up and record it so it would leave me alone. By the time I did that, the beginning of the melody and the first two lines of the lyrics came to me. After that I was finally able to get some sleep; I finished the music later in the morning, and the lyrics in the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBurning Down Both Sides\u201d is one of those songs that forced itself into my brain when I wanted to be asleep. One August night in 2012 I tossed and turned in bed with the 7\/8 guitar riff going round and round in my head; finally, at 2 AM, I decided to get up and record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-behind-the-songs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p30IoQ-ck","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chameleonred.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}