{"id":367,"date":"2006-10-29T08:02:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T08:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2006-10-29T08:02:46","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T08:02:46","slug":"on-tom-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"on Tom Waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Guardian\/Observer has <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/magazine\/story\/0,,1932046,00.html\">a fine piece on Tom<\/a>, one of my favorite musicians, by Sean O&#8217;Hagan. Two inducements to read its entirety:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;I didn&#8217;t just marry a beautiful woman,&#8217; he says, &#8216;I married a record collection.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was like, &#8220;Am I genuinely eccentric? Or am I just wearing a funny hat?&#8221; All the big questions come up when you get sober. &#8220;What am I made of? What&#8217;s left when you drain the pool?&#8221;&#8216;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Guardian\/Observer has a fine piece on Tom, one of my favorite musicians, by Sean O&#8217;Hagan. Two inducements to read its entirety: &#8216;I didn&#8217;t just marry a beautiful woman,&#8217; he says, &#8216;I married a record collection.&#8217; &#8216;It was like, &#8220;Am I genuinely eccentric? Or am I just wearing a funny hat?&#8221; All the big questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}