{"id":1291,"date":"2012-08-25T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2012-08-25T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:22:58","slug":"year-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/year-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Year Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently finished reading <a title=\"Amazon.com - Year Zero\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0345534417\"><em>Year Zero<\/em><\/a> by Rob Reid and mostly dug it. \u00c2\u00a0Learned about the book via this headline on the <a title=\"All Songs Considered\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/all-songs-considered\/\">All Songs Considered<\/a> Blog:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"All Songs Considered - Year Zero\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/allsongs\/2012\/07\/05\/156311483\/aliens-have-landed-hoping-to-license-all-of-humanitys-music\">Aliens Have Landed, Hoping To License All Of Humanity&#8217;s Music<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gets a little wacky and a little campy at times, but overall it&#8217;s a heck of a fun ride. \u00c2\u00a0I especially liked the hidden musical tourette&#8217;s scattered throughout ala <a title=\"Amazon.com - Timely Persuasion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0615188826\/\"><em>Timely Persuasion<\/em><\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0(Less frequent, but I&#8217;ll admit sometimes less forced&#8230;) \u00c2\u00a0And the epilogue is just plain brilliant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Check out the trailer below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7NfVtpYrddM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently finished reading Year Zero by Rob Reid and mostly dug it. \u00c2\u00a0Learned about the book via this headline on the All Songs Considered Blog: Aliens Have Landed, Hoping To License All Of Humanity&#8217;s Music Gets a little wacky and a little campy at times, but overall it&#8217;s a heck of a fun ride. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-debris","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-kP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1448,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/play-em-all\/","url_meta":{"origin":1291,"position":0},"title":"Play &#8217;em All","author":"LBDG","date":"December 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Christmas Eve was an especially historic day this year. \u00c2\u00a0It ended up being the conclusion of my yearlong project to listen to all 13,747 songs in my iTunes library at least once in 2012. \u00c2\u00a0Started with \"A Commotion\" by Feist and ended with \"I Wrote A Book About Rock and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Last Played is Before 1\/1\/12; Media Kind is Music","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-26-09.19.33-pm.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":33,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/chillin-like-a-covervillain\/","url_meta":{"origin":1291,"position":1},"title":"Chillin&#8217; Like A Covervillain","author":"LBDG","date":"May 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night's episode of the podcast Coverville included a Timely Persuasion themed musical trivia segment that I submitted. 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