{"id":1145,"date":"2018-04-18T09:52:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T08:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:26:33","slug":"russells-musical-passions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Russell\u2019s Musical Passions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Russell-5559.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Russell-5559.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Russell-5559-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Russell-5559-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I find it difficult to stick to one particular genre of music and this is partly due to my passion for playing several different musical instruments: the saxophone, guitar, bass and piano.\u00a0\u00a0I was raised on Motown, yet I love listening to jazz and modern alternative rock and pop.\u00a0\u00a0Artists that inspire me:\u00a0\u00a0Unknown Mortal Orchestra, the Beatles, the Beach Boys and early 20th century composers such as Bartok and Stravinsky.\u00a0\u00a0There\u2019s also technical polymetric metal band, Meshuggah, and funk and soul including Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and The Meters. I could go on\u2026<\/p>\n<script><\/script><script><\/script><script><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it difficult to stick to one particular genre of music and this is partly due to my passion for playing several different musical instruments: the saxophone, guitar, bass and piano.\u00a0\u00a0I was raised on Motown, yet I love listening to jazz and modern alternative rock and pop.\u00a0\u00a0Artists that inspire me:\u00a0\u00a0Unknown Mortal Orchestra, the Beatles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenmillennia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}