{"id":2713,"date":"2011-03-09T18:08:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2011-03-09T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:09:48","slug":"happy-birthday-to-music-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/03\/09\/happy-birthday-to-music-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to Music Matters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With some surprise, I find that this blog has today reached its first birthday. What started out as a simple (or so I thought) way of looking at the world of music has grown into a fully-fledged adjunct to the department&#8217;s musical life, embracing concert reviews, alumni profiles, student articles, audio and video examples and a way of fomenting discussion and debate about music; all good.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s even spawned blog-offspring (blogspring ?) of its own, in the form of the choral blog &#8216;Cantus Firmus,&#8217; the Concert and Big Band blog &#8216;On the Beat&#8217; and the nascent orchestra blog, &#8216;Playing Up.&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2720\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2720 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/03\/cake-295x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/03\/cake-295x300.gif 295w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/03\/cake-64x64.gif 64w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/03\/cake-147x150.gif 147w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2011\/03\/cake.gif 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Having your cake and eating it...?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With thanks to all of you who read, contribute, comment, share, tweet and in each way keep it alive and still reflecting both musical life here at the University, as well as beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to us all.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/03\/09\/happy-birthday-to-music-matters\/&amp;t=Happy birthday to Music Matters!' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Happy birthday to Music Matters!%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/03\/09\/happy-birthday-to-music-matters\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/03\/09\/happy-birthday-to-music-matters\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/03\/09\/happy-birthday-to-music-matters\/&amp;title=Happy birthday to Music Matters!' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/03\/09\/happy-birthday-to-music-matters\/&amp;title=Happy birthday to Music Matters!' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With some surprise, I find that this blog has today reached its first birthday. What started out as a simple (or so I thought) way of looking at the world of music has grown into a fully-fledged adjunct to the department&#8217;s musical life, embracing concert reviews, alumni profiles, student articles, audio and video examples and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/03\/09\/happy-birthday-to-music-matters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy birthday to Music Matters!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}