{"id":1319,"date":"2009-06-30T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2010-01-05T22:13:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T03:13:01","slug":"2009-at-the-halfway-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/2009-at-the-halfway-point","title":{"rendered":"2009 at the Halfway Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the year is halfway over, and since people are impatient and like to make lists, I present the best songs and albums of the year so far. You can probably find everything on iTunes, if you want to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Best songs of 2009 (so far):<\/p>\n<p>Alela Diane &#8211; Lady Divine<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Bird &#8211; Anonanimal<\/p>\n<p>Animal Collective &#8211; Bluish<\/p>\n<p>Bob Dylan &#8211; I Feel A Change Comin&#8217; On<\/p>\n<p>Elvis Perkins In Dearland &#8211; Doomsday<\/p>\n<p>Fiction Family &#8211; Look For Me Baby<\/p>\n<p>Jars of Clay &#8211; Scenic Route<\/p>\n<p>Manchester Orchestra &#8211; Shake It Out<\/p>\n<p>Passion Pit &#8211; Sleepyhead<\/p>\n<p>U2 &#8211; Cedars Of Lebanon<\/p>\n<p>Wilco &#8211; Bull Black Nova<\/p>\n<p>A few great albums released so far:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilco &#8211; Wilco (The Album)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wilco, in my opinion, is the greatest band in the world. And this album is no disappointment. It&#8217;s fast, concise, and one of the most pure and beautiful albums this band has recorded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U2 &#8211; No Line On The Horizon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve still got it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elvis Perkins In Dearland &#8211; Elvis Perkins In Dearland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an abundant of riches in this album. Elvis Perkins is a fantastic singer\/songwriter and the whole album is exciting and fun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/Users\/Joel\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the year is halfway over, and since people are impatient and like to make lists, I present the best songs and albums of the year so far. You can probably find everything on iTunes, if you want to check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/2009-at-the-halfway-point\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}