{"id":497,"date":"2014-01-12T20:56:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T04:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2014-01-12T20:56:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T04:56:30","slug":"it-wont-be-the-witches-that-are-burning-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"It won&#8217;t be the witches that are burning this time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Blackbird Raum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blackbirdraum.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackbird Raum<\/a> are returning to the <a title=\"Blackbird Raum at 924 Gilman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/event\/3767827+Blackbird+Raum+at+924+Gilman+St.+on+17+January+2014\" target=\"_blank\">Gilman<\/a> next Friday, and I am pretty darn excited to see them again. They are excellent live performers, and seeing them is always a treat. For my birthday last year, Doc gave me a big ol back patch, embroidered with the cover art for their &#8220;Hail Seizures&#8221; album. Now I&#8217;ve got it all sewn onto a jacket, and it is quite spectacular.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/11921960735\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7429\/11921960735_1e2f498c26.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &#8220;Hail Seizures&#8221; back patch, given to me by my husband<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blackbird Raum have the most original, creative, amazing, and energetic sound that I have heard from any band. I love their messages of militant environmentalism and rejection of the superficial trappings that are stifling most people whilst killing the planet. I like to listen to it and get all pumped up and &#8220;yea, what are we doing just sitting around talking about the problems instead of actually taking action??&#8221; I guess it makes me feel less powerless against all the destruction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saw through the tendons,\u00a0Throw down the yoke,<br \/>\nTurn off the gas before we choke!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackbird Raum are returning to the Gilman next Friday, and I am pretty darn excited to see them again. They are excellent live performers, and seeing them is always a treat. For my birthday last year, Doc gave me a big ol back patch, embroidered with the cover art for their &#8220;Hail Seizures&#8221; album. Now &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It won&#8217;t be the witches that are burning this time.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}