{"id":2308,"date":"2017-12-22T00:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T05:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2017-12-22T00:31:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T05:31:51","slug":"i-wont-try-to-stop-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"i won&#8217;t try to stop you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>when you speak of the past<br \/>\ndoubt is over now and i can join in when you laugh<br \/>\nfascination makes us ask for more than we like to know<br \/>\ni needn&#8217;t explain, i think you know<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A bit of freelance after a good run (the first is a couple of weeks, actually) + Clif bar + provolone slices + EBTG&#8217;s <em>Acoustic<\/em> = A nice way to end the day.  The live version of &#8220;Fascination&#8221; to close out the album is a real showstopper.  I desperately wish they were still making music, but after being so prolific throughout the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s, I suppose they&#8217;ve earned a respite.<\/p>\n<p>I have GOT to upgrade my equipment at some point in the near future.  My iMac is nearly 10 years old, my MacBook older still (the latter necessary because it&#8217;s the only bit of hardware that will still run my copy of FormZ, which is even older).  I have the latest versions of Illustrator and Photoshop, but that&#8217;s it for recent software.  And I know people kick around the word &#8220;investment&#8221; when they&#8217;re trying to justify an outlay for something they want, but in my case it really is&#8212;I spent $700 on the iMac, $100 on the MacBook and around $300 on FormZ and they have paid for themselves many, many, MANY times over.  Soon, hopefully.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when you speak of the past doubt is over now and i can join in when you laugh fascination makes us ask for more than we like to know i needn&#8217;t explain, i think you know A bit of freelance after a good run (the first is a couple of weeks, actually) + Clif bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}