{"id":1664,"date":"2004-09-05T15:32:21","date_gmt":"2004-09-05T19:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2024-10-27T16:42:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T20:42:45","slug":"bye-bye-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, &#8220;Bye Bye Love&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a writing tear.  Non-stop writing, for the past 4 or 5 days.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, I have found that the <i>Everly Brothers<\/i>, of all things, have helped me to STAY in the Zone.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know why this is the case.<\/p>\n<p>If I played the Foo Fighters, or Metallica, or Evanescence &#8230; it just doesn&#8217;t feel right.  I would lose momentum.  Listening to them is procrastination music, not getting-down-to-work music.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; last week, I randomly pulled out my &#8220;Best of the Everly Brothers&#8221;, popped it in &#8230; and now my fingers ache from clutching my pen, I&#8217;ve just been writing, writing, writing.<\/p>\n<p>My neighbors must be sick of &#8220;Bye Bye Love.&#8221;  &#8220;Wake Up Little Susie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jeez,&#8221; they must be thinking. &#8220;What the hell is going on over there?  She&#8217;s playing that <i>again<\/i>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; the first chords of &#8220;Bye Bye Love&#8221; &#8230; I can&#8217;t explain it.  It&#8217;s energizing, it&#8217;s focusing &#8230; I want to sit down and <i>get to it<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a writing tear. Non-stop writing, for the past 4 or 5 days. Strangely, I have found that the Everly Brothers, of all things, have helped me to STAY in the Zone. I do not know why this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1664\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194910,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/194910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}