{"id":1543,"date":"2020-04-26T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2020-05-06T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:28:59","slug":"ten-albums-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2020\/04\/ten-albums-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Albums (#1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">When I started out at university, having moved with my family from country Victoria, I knew very few people, and had very limited musical appreciation outside of classical music or mid-90s pop on the one radio station (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trfm.com.au\/\">3TR<\/a>).  I was encouraged to meet up with some &#8220;nice people&#8221; from the Christian Union there, and dutifully did so.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short order, I had a bunch of great friends, and was introduced to an album whose musicality and lyrics showed me that Christian music wasn&#8217;t always cringey, and in fact &#8220;pop&#8221; music wasn&#8217;t always shallow.<\/p><!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/jars-of-clay\/309887579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/712SzqySKvL._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"Jars Of Clay - Jars Of Clay\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Jars Of Clay&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/jars-of-clay\/309887579\">debut album<\/a> has no filler songs.  Every one expressed for me in some way emotions associated with the first years of university, and still hold up over two decades later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2020\/04\/ten-albums\/\">&lt; Ten Albums<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started out at university, having moved with my family from country Victoria, I knew very few people, and had very limited musical appreciation outside of classical music or mid-90s pop on the one radio station (3TR). I was encouraged to meet up with some &#8220;nice people&#8221; from the Christian Union there, and dutifully&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2020\/04\/ten-albums-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ten Albums (#1)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RxuW-oT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}