{"id":5157,"date":"2017-09-21T20:13:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2017-09-21T20:13:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:13:46","slug":"one-more-goal-1001-songs-you-must-hear-before-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/one-more-goal-1001-songs-you-must-hear-before-you-die\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Goal: 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: 1001 songs to listen before you die\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/7ABNNRAeTC9gDFlbhoHTwN\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to listen to the songs listed in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1001-Songs-Must-Hear-Before\/dp\/0789320894\">1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know a whole bunch about music. And I&#8217;m fine with that. It&#8217;s one of those art forms that I enjoy as a consumer, but have no desire to create, which makes me engage with it differently.<\/p>\n<p>However, often, when I&#8217;m listening to a song, it seems like it&#8217;s another song&#8217;s cousin. I think that listening to these songs will be informative and will enhance my enjoyment of music.<\/p>\n<p>I also find that, once introduced, I like a wide variety of music. I&#8217;m hoping that this little endeavor will help me to discover more things that I like&#8230;or even remember things that I like.<\/p>\n<p>Here at the beginning of this 38th year, I am about 30 songs in. Assuming that I don&#8217;t totally abandon the project, I should have no problem knocking this out this year. I look forward to it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to listen to the songs listed in the book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know a whole bunch about music. And I&#8217;m fine with that. It&#8217;s one of those art forms that I enjoy as a consumer, but have no desire to create, which makes me engage with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/one-more-goal-1001-songs-you-must-hear-before-you-die\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One More Goal: 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"One More Goal: 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[172,189],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","tag-learning","tag-music","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-1lb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4108,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/in-an-open-letter-to-the-feelings-unleashed-by-prematurely-listening-to-harry-connick-jr-doing-christmas-songs\/","url_meta":{"origin":5157,"position":0},"title":"In an open letter to the feelings unleashed by prematurely listening to Harry Connick Jr. doing Christmas songs,","author":"sherlonya","date":"November 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cEven I am at a loss for words right now, but I have to tell you that wondering whether this music is regularly used to seduce during the holiday season is, well, a little different. 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