{"id":21,"date":"2005-06-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-11-23T03:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T07:15:00","slug":"music-of-the-week-the-shins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"music of the week &#8211; the shins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this song is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshins.com\/\">the shins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/images\/articles\/20050601020627835_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><br \/>\nyou&#8217;ve probably heard the song a million times by now. but maybe (hopefully) some of you haven&#8217;t. in the movie, garden state,  andrew asks sam what she is listening to in her headphones and she tells him it&#8217;s the shins. &#8220;this song will change your life&#8221;, she tells him. while i&#8217;ve listened to the song dozens of times and the life change that she spoke of has yet to occur, i have to admire her zealousness. i myself have been accused on more than one occasion of being just as over the top. i can&#8217;t count the number of times that i&#8217;ve been in the thralls of an amazing song and have been convinced that it, being the best song in the world, had the absolute power to change the listeners life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nthis is the song that  sam was listening to. it&#8217;s a truly great song. will it change your life? let me know.<\/p>\n[audio:TheShins-NewSlang.mp3]\n<p>i highly recommend getting the shins album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00009LVXT\/qid=1117617844\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_csp_1\/102-3428722-7814515?v=glance&amp;s=music&amp;n=507846\" target=\"_blank\">chutes too narrow<\/a>. it&#8217;s not the album that new slang appears on, but the album after that. its a <em>killer<\/em> album and you would be wise to check it out. the beach boys aren&#8217;t dead. they&#8217;re brought back to life through the shins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this song is by the shins. you&#8217;ve probably heard the song a million times by now. but maybe (hopefully) some of you haven&#8217;t. in the movie, garden state, andrew asks sam what she is listening to in her headphones and she tells him it&#8217;s the shins. &#8220;this song will change your life&#8221;, she tells him. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}