{"id":413,"date":"2006-09-13T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T07:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2006\/09\/13\/who-is-jonathan-coulton\/"},"modified":"2006-09-13T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T07:48:24","slug":"who-is-jonathan-coulton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2006\/09\/13\/who-is-jonathan-coulton\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Jonathan Coulton?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coulton&#8217;s the creative cohort of John Hodgman (author of <a href = \"http:\/\/www.areasofmyexpertise.com\/\"><b>The Areas of My Expertise<\/a><\/b>). He&#8217;s also <a href = \"http:\/\/www.batemania.com\/bateman365\/day212.html\"><b>borderline irresponsible<\/b><\/a>. Best known for <a href = \"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FdrSWTBU9Ac\"><b>Flickr<\/a><\/b>, a brilliant song\/video written around images found on the image sharing site, Coulton&#8217;s been putting up a free song a week on <a href = \"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\"><b>his site<\/b><\/a> for, well, a while.<br \/>\nCoulton&#8217;s music is a little bit folk-Randy Newman, a little bit TMBG. Sometimes it&#8217;s like Dan Fogelberg, only evil. As high quality, representative samples, may I recommend: <a href = \"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/lyrics\/millionaire-girlfriend\"><b>Millionaire Girlfriend<\/b><\/a>, <a href = \"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/2006\/02\/17\/thing-a-week-21-chiron-beta-prime\/\"><b>Chiron Beta Prime<\/a><\/b>, <a href = \"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/2006\/06\/02\/thing-a-week-35-soft-rocked-by-me\"><b>Soft-Rocked by Me<\/b><\/a>, and <a href = \"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/2006\/03\/24\/thing-a-week-26-re-your-brains\"><b>Re: Your Brains<\/a><\/b>. But really, there&#8217;s lots more than that. You can find a big mess of them <a href = \"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/thingaweek\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.<br \/>\nProbably worth noting that some of these tunes use potty words (specifically: &#8220;First of May&#8221;), and I haven&#8217;t yet played them all myself, so who the hell knows what&#8217;s out there&#8230;. But what I&#8217;ve played so far, I&#8217;m sort of stunned by. Four monkeys up!<br \/>\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coulton&#8217;s the creative cohort of John Hodgman (author of The Areas of My Expertise). He&#8217;s also borderline irresponsible. Best known for Flickr, a brilliant song\/video written around images found on the image sharing site, Coulton&#8217;s been putting up a free song a week on his site for, well, a while. Coulton&#8217;s music is a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-and-also-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}