{"id":1293,"date":"2013-11-07T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:37:07","slug":"melodic-fragments-from-the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/melodic-fragments-from-the-public-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodic Fragments from the Public Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need something to get you started in the right direction, you could always try using a melodic fragment from a public domain song. An ages-old folk song or even a nursery rhyme will do.\u00a0Work it and rework it until you&#8217;ve made it your own.<\/p>\n<p>By the time you&#8217;re done, it probably won&#8217;t be recognizable at all. Ideally, the only thing left will be the ghost of that melodic fragment. The idea here, of course, is that it&#8217;s just another of the many <a href=\"http:\/\/99u.com\/articles\/16136\/7-ways-to-boost-your-creativity\">ways to boost your creativity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2736\/4516441695_1108196436.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr by eliztesch<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need something to get you started in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-kR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}