{"id":1655,"date":"2008-07-30T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2008-07-30T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T11:20:08","slug":"a-pricey-summer-for-culture-vultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1655","title":{"rendered":"A pricey summer for culture vultures."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First it was the buy-one-get-one-free sale on Criterion Collection DVDs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepdiscount.com\">DeepDiscount<\/a> (which concluded as of midnight last night, thank God), but now Apple has launched a $6.99 and $7.99 sale on <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewCustomPage?name=pageClassicalSale&#038;v0=US_NMT_072908&#038;s=143441\">Classical<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewCustomPage?name=pageJazzSale&#038;v0=US_NMT_072908&#038;s=143441\">Jazz<\/a> albums.  My wallet!  My poor, innocent, empty wallet!<br \/>\nI mean, seriously &#150; <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=278940184&#038;s=143441\">Hilary Hahn<\/a>!  <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=159066112&#038;s=143441\">Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone<\/a>!  <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=158533093&#038;s=143441\">Joshua Bell<\/a>!  <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=75635339&#038;s=143441\">Miles Davis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=3448641&#038;s=143441\">John Coltrane<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=7415640&#038;s=143441\">Jamie Cullum<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=80621456&#038;s=143441\">Thelonious Monk<\/a>!  <i>Damn you, Jobs!<\/i><br \/>\nLuckily, I already <i>own<\/i> most of these classics, but there&#8217;s a couple I&#8217;m eyeing cautiously.  If those of you in my reading audience pick up nothing else, the Yo-Yo Ma playing Ennio Morricone is a <i>must-have<\/i> &#150; it&#8217;s one of my favorite go-to albums whenever I need some great background music for work or writing or whatever.<br \/>\nOh, well.  Think of the money you&#8217;ll save on gas at $4+ per gallon by staying in and watching movies or listening to MP3s.  Yeah, that&#8217;s the ticket&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First it was the buy-one-get-one-free sale on Criterion Collection DVDs at DeepDiscount (which concluded as of midnight last night, thank God), but now Apple has launched a $6.99 and $7.99 sale on Classical and Jazz albums. My wallet! My poor, innocent, empty wallet! I mean, seriously &#150; Hilary Hahn! Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone! Joshua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[24,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-movies","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-qH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}