{"id":6,"date":"2009-05-27T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2011-11-22T16:51:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T21:51:04","slug":"whats-with-the-muzak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/whats-with-the-muzak\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s with the Muzak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may just be the nascent curmudgeon in me, but I really can&#8217;t bear this trend where many photographers feel compelled to greet you with music when you arrive on their website. If that&#8217;s not bad enough, the music is almost always either some kind of schmaltzy guitar\/piano rambling (mostly the women photogs) OR endlessly looped techno\/electronica\/industrial glop (the men).<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to just letting a photograph &#8220;speak&#8221; for itself? I understand that websites are an integral part of of a marketing program but is music really necessary?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may just be the nascent curmudgeon in me, but I really can&#8217;t bear this trend where many photographers feel compelled to greet you with music when you arrive on their website. If that&#8217;s not bad enough, the music is almost always either some kind of schmaltzy guitar\/piano rambling (mostly the women photogs) OR endlessly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/whats-with-the-muzak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s with the Muzak?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russcam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}