{"id":908,"date":"2013-09-30T21:04:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T04:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2013-10-19T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T00:58:24","slug":"the-songwriters-worst-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/the-songwriters-worst-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Songwriter&#8217;s Worst Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Distractions and procrastination are possibly your worst enemies when it comes to writing a truly great song. These two foes can attack your confidence and sap your will if you let them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s up to you to create the space in your life that&#8217;s necessary to actually put work into your craft. And it&#8217;s a mistake to write one good song and allow that to lull you into complacency. As Brian Wilson recently said in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browardpalmbeach.com\/2013-09-26\/music\/brian-wilson-on-songwriting-i-m-always-anxious-to-make-each-one-better\/\">an interview with the <em>Broward Palm Beach New Times<\/em><\/a>, you have to always be &#8220;anxious to make each one better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the songwriter's worst enemies\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3034\/2952345586_462e8025f3.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr by xlordashx<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distractions and procrastination are possibly your worst enemies when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":"","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}},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips","category-uncategorized","tag-how-to-write-songs","tag-songwriting-tips-2","tag-ways-to-compose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-eE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}