{"id":1181,"date":"2020-01-01T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2020-01-01T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T03:47:10","slug":"the-villain-and-his-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/the-villain-and-his-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Villain and His Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Track-1-6.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> I like writing themes. I remember recording this one some forty years ago. I was laying down this great melodrama villain theme I&#8217;d composed and then I got tired of playing it. In fact, I wanted to change the mood. So, rather than doing another separate recording, I just extemporized a completely contrasting melody to work against the first part. Never revisited it, but decades later I began to wonder that if the first part was the villain, who did the second part represent? Having recently seen the animated cartoon &#8220;Despicable Me&#8221; with its not so evil villain who ends up being a foster dad, I originally thought it might be the villain&#8217;s kid. But then I remembered the Simpson&#8217;s episode in which Home goes off chasing &#8220;dog with a fluffy tail&#8221;, completely ignoring the fact he&#8217;s just seen his own double for the first time! Those two animations made it pretty obvious this composition was about &#8220;The Villain and His Dog.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like writing themes. I remember recording this one some forty years ago. I was laying down this great melodrama villain theme I&#8217;d composed and then I got tired of playing it. In fact, I wanted to change the mood. So, rather than doing another separate recording, I just extemporized a completely contrasting melody to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-compositions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-j3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}