{"id":1398,"date":"2011-09-15T23:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T04:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2011-09-15T23:39:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T04:39:48","slug":"rewilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"rewilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a year and a half ago I answered an ad for musicians to participate in an art project. The project was about &#8220;rewilding.&#8221;  As far as I could figure it out I think the idea was nature taking back developed land.<\/p>\n<p>I brought <a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/2010\/01\/19\/fairbanks-mandolin-1900\/\">my<\/a> old <a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/2010\/02\/19\/how-tater-bug-mandolins-got-their-name\/\">tater bug mandolin<\/a> to the meeting with the artist, a young french woman. We met up at a forgotten block that feels like nature really is taking it back.<\/p>\n<p>She put a little audio recorder in a patch of weeds and went across the street to shoot video with a Flip camera. It didn&#8217;t take long. We did one take each of two songs, parted on the spot, and I never heard anything else about it until just now when I stumbled across it on YouTube, under the title <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_qRX9aEutdg\">Rewilding With Intention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_qRX9aEutdg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not my best singing, but the feeling of the place makes it worth tolerating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year and a half ago I answered an ad for musicians to participate in an art project. The project was about &#8220;rewilding.&#8221; As far as I could figure it out I think the idea was nature taking back developed land. I brought my old tater bug mandolin to the meeting with the artist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}