{"id":2182,"date":"2009-01-31T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T01:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2009-01-31T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T01:46:54","slug":"on-joining-last-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2182","title":{"rendered":"On Joining Last.fm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scouring of the Opera website, looking for new and cool widgets to trick out the Opera 10 Alpha this afternoon, led me to a realization &mdash; there are all sorts of social networking music sites out there, and I&#8217;ve never, ever looked at them.<\/p>\n<p>So, I went and signed up with last.fm.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/allyngibson'>Here&#8217;s my Music Profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t mock the music stats; they&#8217;re from iTunes, and I barely use it.  So, the numbers are <i>way<\/i> skewed, and are not at all reflective of the sorts of things I normally listen to.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve downloaded some free <a href=\"http:\/\/qwithoutu.com\/\">q without u<\/a> tracks that I didn&#8217;t have, thanks to last.fm. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I would say that I am frequently asked what music I&#8217;m grooving to but, I hate to say, no one <i>ever<\/i> asks me what I&#8217;m listening to.  But now, there&#8217;s no excuse.  The entire world can know what I&#8217;m listening to!  And I can even add a sidebar widget to WordPress. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scouring of the Opera website, looking for new and cool widgets to trick out the Opera 10 Alpha this afternoon, led me to a realization &mdash; there are all sorts of social networking music sites out there, and I&#8217;ve never, ever looked at them. So, I went and signed up with last.fm. Here&#8217;s my<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2182\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Joining Last.fm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4093,4098],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-life","tag-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}