{"id":1590,"date":"2012-07-31T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2012-07-31T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T21:24:09","slug":"swings-roundabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Swings &#038; Roundabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SwingsRoundabouts1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1592\" title=\"Swings&amp;Roundabouts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SwingsRoundabouts1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SwingsRoundabouts1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SwingsRoundabouts1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F54631934%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-RgkzS&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;secret_url=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Len Mosley composed and performed all the music which inspired the words. Len\u2019s kind-of-jazzy track has a great pop-with-swing feel that reminded me of Dire Straits. The swing vibe and his request to \u2018write something nostalgic\u2019 led to a train of thought about a childhood memory I\u2019d started to write about a while back. I\u2019d been stuck because it was too literal (it\u2019s all true) to be a poem and not long enough to be a short story.<\/p>\n<p>After I\u2019ve listened to it a few times it seems the music and the lyric are made for each other. The guitar break in the middle section has a pretty, innocent sound which suggested simple pleasures to me and Len\u2019s keyboard work even reminds me a bit of fairground music.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Len for another great collaboration from 7700 km away!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Len Mosley composed and performed all the music which inspired the words. Len\u2019s kind-of-jazzy track has a great pop-with-swing feel that reminded me of Dire Straits. The swing vibe and his request to \u2018write something nostalgic\u2019 led to a train &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1590\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}