{"id":837,"date":"2011-05-03T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:07:09","slug":"the-absinthe-drinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/the-absinthe-drinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Absinthe Drinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Absinthe Drinkers are a LitPop band who have embraced a steampunk aesthetic.<\/p>\n

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What is Litpop? Well, basically, they take poems from famous poets like\u00a0Byron, Rimbaud, Hardy, Lihn Dinh, Gary Stein, Neil Bowers, etc, and read them to music. Like\u00a0pop\/rock\/funk\/surf etc.<\/p>\n

The results are thus:<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cae0y9DrEB0]<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f_-nOPUA6mk]<\/p>\n

For more on the band visit their website at www.theabsinthedrinkers.com<\/a><\/p>\n

(yeah, i know this is all a little short and curt, but this week i am madly at work on the 4th and final act of the Opera, which is going\u00a0phenomenally\u00a0well, but which is requiring a great deal of concentration. 4 songs in, 3 to go)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Absinthe Drinkers are a LitPop band who have embraced a steampunk aesthetic. What is Litpop? Well, basically, they take poems from famous poets like\u00a0Byron, Rimbaud, Hardy, Lihn Dinh, Gary Stein, Neil Bowers, etc, and read them to music. Like\u00a0pop\/rock\/funk\/surf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}