{"id":51050,"date":"2024-04-08T18:40:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51050"},"modified":"2024-04-08T18:42:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:42:39","slug":"year-50-day-342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/08\/year-50-day-342\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 50 Day 342"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1000,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/music.apple.com\\\/us\\\/album\\\/cowboy-carter\\\/1738363766&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260216171853\\\/https:\\\/\\\/music.apple.com\\\/us\\\/album\\\/cowboy-carter\\\/1738363766&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 17:15:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 17:15:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1001,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Cowboy_Carter#Critical_reception&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260301181701\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Cowboy_Carter&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/y50d342-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding my iPad with Beyonc\u00e9&#39;s &#39;Cowboy Carter&#39; album on the screen.\" title=\"y50d342.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 342: Just a quick word of thanks to those people I&#8217;ve seen making snarky comments or sharing snarky memes about <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/cowboy-carter\/1738363766\">Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s new album<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been so wrapped up with Norwescon that I was only vaguely aware that it had come out, but I saw enough grumbling that it got me curious. Gave it a listen today, and it is a <em>really<\/em> strong album, absolutely deserving of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cowboy_Carter#Critical_reception\">the accolades<\/a> that (as I now know, after doing a little reading today) it has been getting. So, thanks for being vocal about your disdain! You helped her make another sale!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A word of thanks to those people I&#8217;ve seen sharing snarky comments and memes about Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s new album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035,2043,2049],"tags":[5897,5898,5686],"class_list":["post-51050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","category-photos","tag-beyonce","tag-cowboy-carter","tag-year-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}