{"id":1182,"date":"2012-05-07T15:17:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T23:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2013-06-28T07:43:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:43:23","slug":"new-i-like-songs-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/new-i-like-songs-post\/","title":{"rendered":"New I Like Songs Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new evaluation of the song &#8220;A Team&#8221; by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ed Sheeran\" href=\"http:\/\/edsheeran.com\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Sheeran<\/a> up at the <a title=\"A Team by Ed Sheeran\" href=\"http:\/\/ilikesongs.blogspot.ca\/2012\/05\/a-team-i-cant-forget.html\">I Like Songs<\/a> blog. \u00a0If you&#8217;ve never heard of Ed Sheeran, there&#8217;s a video of him performing the song as well.<br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24365773@N03\/5780111887\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Ed Sheeran\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3580\/5780111887_5919a7d312_m.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Sheeran\" width=\"200\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Sheeran (Photo credit: Man Alive!)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a series of five lines that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rhyme\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhyme\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">rhyme<\/a>; \u00a0not <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Perfect rhyme\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perfect_rhyme\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">perfect rhymes<\/a> on all occasions, but each two syllables long whether they are one word or two. \u00a0And on each of those he uses the same two notes, higher than any other note in the song. \u00a0Now my rule of thumb has always been to only repeat something three times or it starts to feel like too much, but in this case that rule appears to go out the window. \u00a0It just works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check it out!<\/p>\n<p><em>IJ<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=ef8f035a-bbbf-410f-917c-2c234e2eb38c\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new evaluation of the song &#8220;A Team&#8221; by Ed Sheeran up at the I Like Songs blog. \u00a0If you&#8217;ve never heard of Ed Sheeran, there&#8217;s a video of him performing the song as well. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: &#8220;This is a series of five lines that rhyme; \u00a0not perfect rhymes on all occasions, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prwoq-j4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}