{"id":17917,"date":"2020-04-27T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T08:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=17917"},"modified":"2020-07-26T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T00:30:45","slug":"17917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=17917","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-30-at-5.16.46-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-30-at-5.16.46-AM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen Shot 2020-04-30 at 5.16.46 AM\" width=\"330\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-30-at-5.16.46-AM.png 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-30-at-5.16.46-AM-150x81.png 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-30-at-5.16.46-AM-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAYING RECORDS IS A GREAT WAY TO DE-STRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Record Store Day 2020 postponed due to the pandemic, now&#8217;s a good time to listen to some great sounding vinyl. It&#8217;s a sublime way to pass the time while at home. <\/p>\n<p>Live albums can be especially beneficial in bringing back fond memories of concerts you may have attended. Or you can spin some female vocals or mellow jazz for a relaxing break from the computer. Vinyl remains my preferred way to listen to music for its ability to let me connect with the artist in an emotional way.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Record stores everywhere are adapting to on-line sales to weather the economic downturn due to stay-at-home orders. Above is a web ad I photographed recently for one of my favorite on-line music stores: <a href=\"https:\/\/store.acousticsounds.com\/?gclid=CjwKCAjw4pT1BRBUEiwAm5QuR3i0Xt_giWHm0pc_p718bl27IAD628QMtb9-8ONtFsXjp7_VqJI3vhoCYBcQAvD_BwE\">Acoustic Sounds<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Check out <em>Carryin&#8217; On<\/em>, an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green released 50 years ago today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLAYING RECORDS IS A GREAT WAY TO DE-STRESS With Record Store Day 2020 postponed due to the pandemic, now&#8217;s a good time to listen to some great sounding vinyl. It&#8217;s a sublime way to pass the time while at home. Live albums can be especially beneficial in bringing back fond memories of concerts you may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=17917\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17917"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17920,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17917\/revisions\/17920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}