{"id":549,"date":"2006-07-19T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2006-07-19T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T23:44:00","slug":"the-innocence-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-innocence-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"The Innocence Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinnocencemission.com\/karinwinter.jpg\" title=\"Innocence Mission\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I doubt if this is going to mean much to most if you, but tonight I managed to track down some live videos of the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinnocencemission.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Innocence Mission<\/a> playing a Borders in some place or another in the States in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>At the time they were promoting their third album, &#8216;Glow,&#8217; a collection of hauntingly beautiful songs which drew comparisons with the Cocteaus, 10,000 Maniacs and The Cowboy Junkies.<\/p>\n<p>The album is quietly stunning, with Karen Peris&#8217;s breathtakingly beautiful voice singing deeply personal and evocative lyrics, laced with melancholy and joy.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone describe Peris&#8217;s voice as being &#8220;like a brave bird singing on an cold autumn morning.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase her own lyrics, I&#8217;d best describe her voice as &#8220;beautifully sad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt if this is going to mean much to most if you, but tonight I managed to track down some live videos of the fabulous The Innocence Mission playing &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6073,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/karinwinter.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-8R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}