{"id":781,"date":"2009-08-31T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2009-08-31T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:12:22","slug":"my-worlds-collide-progressive-politics-and-progressive-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"My worlds collide: Progressive Politics and Progressive Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dailykos_banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-782\" title=\"dailykos_banner\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dailykos_banner.jpg\" alt=\"dailykos_banner\" width=\"195\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are a regular reader of DailyKos, then you probably know of <a href=\"http:\/\/bill-in-portland-maine.dailykos.com\/\">Bill in Portland Maine<\/a> and his extremely entertaining and informative &#8220;Cheers and Jeers&#8217; feature.\u00a0 Today, he is interviewing one of the regular contributors to the DailyKos community &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/user\/Malacandra\">Malacandra<\/a> a\/k\/a Miles Kurland.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a web developer and designer with strong political feelings and, apparently, great taste in music:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>What kind of music makes you feel invincible to the GOP horde?<\/strong><br \/>\nProgressive Rock, of course! \u00a0These days, it&#8217;d be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decemberists.com\/\">Decemberists<\/a>. As luck would have it, they were doing a gig in Pittsburgh during Netroots Nation, just a few blocks away from the conference center. I had the unforgettable experience of seeing both a rousing speech by Howard Dean and a kick-ass Decemberists concert all in one evening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two great tastes that taste great together!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uk70sprogrock.com\/\">UK70sProgRock<\/a> and it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/uk70sProgRock\">kick ass twitter feed<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a regular reader of DailyKos, then you probably know of Bill in Portland Maine and his extremely entertaining and informative &#8220;Cheers and Jeers&#8217; feature.\u00a0 Today, he is interviewing one of the regular contributors to the DailyKos community &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,111],"tags":[738,294,737,736,741,220,739,740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}