{"id":2364,"date":"2015-10-28T20:57:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2015-10-28T20:57:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:57:14","slug":"best-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/ramblings\/best-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2366\" src=\"http:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trees-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"trees\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Sometimes I post my whole Fids &amp; Kamily ballot; this year I just love all of my top ten (and beyond!) so much that I don&#8217;t want to do that, other than saying that <strong>the best family record of the year for me was Molly Ledford &amp; Billy Kelly&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Trees<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0Funny, sweet, catchy, sometimes a little melancholy, smart: it&#8217;s so darn good.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the rest of the list, in alphabetical order (in the way that iTunes does it):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alastair Moock &amp; Friends &#8211; All Kinds of You And Me<\/li>\n<li>Gustafer Yellowgold &#8211; Wisdom Tooth of Wisdom<\/li>\n<li>Jazzy Ash &#8211; Bon Voyage<\/li>\n<li>Lori Henriques &#8211; How Great Can This Day Be<\/li>\n<li>Lucky Diaz &amp; the Family Jam Band &#8211; Adelante<\/li>\n<li>Red Yarn &amp; Friends &#8211; Deep Woods Revival<\/li>\n<li>Renee &amp; Friends &#8211; Simpatico<\/li>\n<li>Suz Slezak &#8211; Watching the Nighttime Come<\/li>\n<li>Tim Kubart &#8211; Home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Records that came really close:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bazillions &#8211; On the Bright Side<\/li>\n<li>Bunnyclogs &#8211; Whales Can\u2019t Whistle<\/li>\n<li>Cat Doorman &#8211; Calling All the Kids to the Yard<\/li>\n<li>Lloyd H. Miller &#8211; Sing-a-Long History Vol. 1: Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!<\/li>\n<li>Pointed Man Band &#8211; Flight of the Blue Whale<\/li>\n<li>The Pop Ups &#8211; Great Pretenders Club<\/li>\n<li>Turkey Andersen &#8211; s\/t<\/li>\n<li>Vered &#8211; Hello My Baby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And way more. \u00a0It was a good year. \u00a0Go buy some music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I post my whole Fids &amp; Kamily ballot; this year I just love all of my top ten (and beyond!) so much that I don&#8217;t want to do that, other than saying that the best family record of the year for me was Molly Ledford &amp; Billy Kelly&#8217;s\u00a0Trees. \u00a0Funny, sweet, catchy, sometimes a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetherock.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}