{"id":1005,"date":"2017-06-08T15:06:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:06:28","slug":"opening-pandoras-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/08\/opening-pandoras-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Pandora&#8217;s Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A newsgroup post from October 15, 2008, complaining about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/\">Pandora Internet Radio<\/a>.  This was, in fact, why I stopped using it:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve started several stations now, and they all seem to keep drifting in the same direction.  I know what I want, and Pandora generally seems to start off with it, then gradually go off course.  No matter what I choose as my starting point, the music keeps getting <i>slower<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I picked &#8220;Ooh La La&#8221; by Goldfrapp to try to get <i>fast<\/i> techno, and instead, while I&#8217;m getting more Goldfrapp, it&#8217;s all her <i>slower<\/i> songs.  (&#8220;Crystalline Green&#8221; is playing right now.)  I got &#8220;#1 Crush&#8221; by Garbage, which is a cool song, but what do I have to do to not get stuff that&#8217;s so <i>slow<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>I hate to thumbs-down songs I actually like, but I may start doing exactly that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newsgroup post from October 15, 2008, complaining about Pandora Internet Radio. This was, in fact, why I stopped using it: Okay, I&#8217;ve started several stations now, and they all seem to keep drifting in the same direction. I know what I want, and Pandora generally seems to start off with it, then gradually go&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/08\/opening-pandoras-box\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalities-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}