{"id":2771,"date":"2013-10-09T02:02:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2025-01-28T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T05:19:07","slug":"through-a-string-of-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/10\/09\/through-a-string-of-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Through a string of stars&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/toadthewetsprocket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Toad the Wet Sprocket\" rel=\"noopener\">Toad the Wet Sprocket<\/a><\/b> is releasing their first album in&#8230;sixteen? seventeen? years.<\/p>\n<p>I got in on their Kickstarter campaign (which funded damn fast and over 5x their goal)&#8230;whenever it was on&#8230;and I&#8217;ve been listening to the new album <i>New Constellation<\/i> (plus the bonus EPs they released to pledgers) quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very much <i>Toad<\/i>.  And it&#8217;s a refreshing change of pace from the <i>shit<\/i> on the airwaves these days.<\/p>\n<p>Remember 90&#8217;s alternative music?<\/p>\n<p>That was good music.<\/p>\n<p>And Glen Phillips is still just so damn adorable.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2013pics\/toad art.png\" title=\"Toad the Wet Sprocket\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:375px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\">\n<tr>\n<td col style=\"width:60px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/graphics\/headphones50.png\" title=\"now playing...\"><\/td>\n<td col style=\"width:315px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\">New Constellation<br \/>\nToad the Wet Sprocket<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toad the Wet Sprocket is releasing their first album in&#8230;sixteen? seventeen? years. I got in on their Kickstarter campaign (which funded damn fast and over 5x their goal)&#8230;whenever it was on&#8230;and I&#8217;ve been listening to the new album New Constellation (plus the bonus EPs they released to pledgers) quite a bit. It&#8217;s very much Toad. And it&#8217;s a refreshing change of pace from the shit on the airwaves these days. Remember 90&#8217;s alternative music? That&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/10\/09\/through-a-string-of-stars\/\" class=\"readmore\">Keep reading&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Through a string of stars&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2013pics\/toad%20art.png","fifu_image_alt":"Toad the Wet Sprocket","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,154,31,54],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-toad-the-wet-sprocket","category-pictures","category-pseudo-music-reviews","tag-224","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2013pics\/toad%20art.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11371,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/11371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}