{"id":4728,"date":"2010-09-04T08:32:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2010-09-04T08:32:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:32:50","slug":"check-out-my-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100904-4728.htm","title":{"rendered":"Check out my debut album!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxya&#8217;s first album, &#8220;Sacrifice my wife&#8217;s brother&#8221;, is sure to be an absolute hit.<\/p>\n<p>You can download it via a link here at bekahcubed for a single low price of $9.99 for 15 songs, or you can order the old-fashioned CD for $24.99 plus shipping and handling.  Why such a high price for the CD when the disc and case costs less than $0.50?  <\/p>\n<p>Because the album cover is totally worth it.  Check it out!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"images\/20100901-01.jpg\" alt=\"OXYA album cover\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n(Modified from an original image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wm_archiv\/3669060652\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allie_Caulfield<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t figured out yet, this is completely bogus. <\/p>\n<p>My little sister &#8220;tagged&#8221; me in a Facebook meme with the following instructions:<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Click on the link to get a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random\" target=\"_blank\">random wikipedia article<\/a>.  The title of the article is your band&#8217;s name. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxya,_Karditsa\" target=\"_blank\">My band<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Click on the link to get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/random.php3\" target=\"_blank\">Random Quotation from &#8220;Quotations Page.com&#8221;<\/a>.  The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quote\/1358.html\" target=\"_blank\">The quote that inspired my album<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; Click on a link to get some random photos from the last seven days on flickr. Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.  <em>(I, because I did not want to violate copyright, instead went to <a href=\"http:\/\/images.search.yahoo.com\/images\/advanced?ei=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Images Search<\/a> and selected &#8220;Only from Flickr.com&#8221; under Site\/Domain and &#8220;Creator Allows Reuse&#8211;Remix, Tweak, Build Upon&#8221; for Creative Common License.  I used &#8220;image&#8221; as my search term&#8211;although you could also use &#8220;random&#8221; or another vague word.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>4 &#8211; Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.  <em>(I, being a frugal soul, use the free, open-source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GIMP<\/a> as my photo editing software.  It&#8217;s not quite as user-friendly so I&#8217;m told, but I generally can figure out how to work it from a Photoshop tutorial&#8211;and the price is right!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>5 &#8211; Post it to FB with this text in the &#8220;caption&#8221; and TAG the friends you want to join in. <em>(Being somewhat unfond of placing images on Facebook&#8211;or of allowing Facebook rights to any of my creative works, for that matter&#8211;I chose to share my album on bekahcubed rather than on Facebook.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxya&#8217;s first album, &#8220;Sacrifice my wife&#8217;s brother&#8221;, is sure to be an absolute hit. You can download it via a link here at bekahcubed for a single low price of $9.99 for 15 songs, or you can order the old-fashioned CD for $24.99 plus shipping and handling. Why such a high price for the CD &#8230; <a title=\"Check out my debut album!!!!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100904-4728.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Check out my debut album!!!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}