{"id":1083,"date":"2013-08-24T21:27:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T20:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2013-08-25T21:50:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T20:50:27","slug":"the-obligatory-another-self-portrait-first-reactions-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/2013\/08\/the-obligatory-another-self-portrait-first-reactions-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obligatory &#8220;Another Self Portrait &#8212; First Reactions&#8221; post"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/Dylan.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"294\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another Self Portrait<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d make the &#8220;First Reactions&#8221; post short and sweet:<\/p>\n<p>1. Time passes slowly #1 &amp; 2 are definitely keepers.<\/p>\n<p>2. The new piano version of <em>Spanish Is The Loving Tongue<\/em> is nice too, but nowhere near the circulating solo piano version. It&#8217;s a step in the direction of its consummate cousin, but it comes nowhere near it on any scale.<\/p>\n<p>3.<em>\u00a0<s><\/s><span class=\"twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav\">Another Self Portrait<\/span><\/em> does not redeem <em><span class=\"twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav\">Self Portrait<\/span><\/em> (&#8220;What&#8217;s this shit?&#8221;) as an album, but the new tracks do add to a more nuanced picture of the project (or less pompously: the development) that Self Portrait is a witness of.<\/p>\n<p>4. The Isle of Wight concert is the first and probably the most radical re-invention Dylan has made in his entire career. Going electric was nothing in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>5. Who will be the first to find the source from which Dylan has stolen the cover image? A flickr account? An underrated b\/w photographer from the 30s? A Barnes &amp; Nobles commercial delivered to the tour bus in Stirling Castle during the <del>2003<\/del> 2001 tour?<\/p>\n<p>More to come. Tabs too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d make the &#8220;First Reactions&#8221; post short and sweet: 1. Time passes slowly #1 &amp; 2 are definitely keepers. 2. The new piano version of Spanish Is The Loving Tongue is nice too, but nowhere near the circulating solo piano version. It&#8217;s a step in the direction of its consummate cousin, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albums","category-dylan","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}