{"id":411,"date":"2010-12-08T17:22:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/12\/08\/101208_imusic\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T22:24:05","slug":"101208_imusic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/12\/08\/101208_imusic\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting i on Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on Facebook earlier today but didn&#8217;t take the time to watch it until my pal <a href=\"http:\/\/archaeotex.blogspot.com\/\">Jeff<\/a> emailed a link to me. It&#8217;s definitely worth 7 minutes of your time.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17570180?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>See, this is what happens when geeks are allowed into worship bands. The next thing you know, we&#8217;ll have rappers doing the preaching. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurtis_Blow#Minister\">Oh, wait&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The times, they are a&#8217;changing, and with it, a lot of terminology. If this trend continues, will we begin to see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cool guys trying to pick up girls with the line, &#8220;I&#8217;m the lead iPhoneist for ________&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">marching bands lining up with an iPad line?<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">iPhones providing musical accompaniment in Church of Christ worship services? (&#8220;It&#8217;s not an instrument, it&#8217;s a phone.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">an updated version of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurtis_Blow#Minister\">The Message<\/a> where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+33:2&amp;version=NIV\">Psalm 33:2<\/a> reads <i>Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to him on the iPod touch.<\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">adolescent boys kicking the doorstep and giving the excuse that they can&#8217;t come play baseball because they have to &#8220;practice the stupid iPad&#8221;?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I started to Photoshop an iPad onto the body of a guitar for this post, but, of course, somebody already beat me to it&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\/15\/archives\/2010\/06\/diy_ipad_guitar_synthesizer_frame.html\">it&#8217;s an actual functioning instrument<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Oh, I almost forgot. If you want details on the apps used in this performance, <a href=\"http:\/\/reidgreven.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/07\/north-point-iband-apps\/\">check this out<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on Facebook earlier today but didn&#8217;t take the time to watch it until my pal Jeff emailed a link to me. It&#8217;s definitely worth 7 minutes of your time. See, this is what happens when geeks are allowed into worship bands. The next thing you know, we&#8217;ll have rappers doing the preaching.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/12\/08\/101208_imusic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting i on Music<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","category-music","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9114,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}