{"id":968,"date":"2017-10-26T19:09:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T23:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/?p=968"},"modified":"2017-10-26T19:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T23:09:48","slug":"best-reddit-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Best Reddit Yet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;ve only posted to reddit a couple of times, but this one will be my favorite for probably forever I expect&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/redd.it\/748889\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this thread on reddit<\/a> asking about an <a href=\"http:\/\/chiplynch.com\/random\/(Jan_Gerstenberger)-Thinking_Of_You.mp3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MP3 song I&#8217;ve had lying around since college<\/a>, or shortly thereafter (1997? 98? 99?).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NameThatSong\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Name That Song&#8221; subreddit<\/a> because I wasn&#8217;t sure I had the name of the artist or the song correct.  I&#8217;d transcribed the lyrics, searched the internet as best I could (and I generally consider myself fairly adept at that), and finally resorted to posting to reddit.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks go by&#8230; crickets.  No comments; just a few views.<\/p>\n<p>Until I woke up this morning to not only a comment on the thread, but an email from the comment-writer, who was none other than the original artist, excited to have googled himself and found me posting about a song he wrote 20 years ago!<\/p>\n<p>Made his day, and it made mine too.  It&#8217;s a fun little thread; check it out.  Good times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;ve only posted to reddit a couple of times, but this one will be my favorite for probably forever I expect&#8230; I posted this thread on reddit asking about an MP3 song I&#8217;ve had lying around since&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/?p=968\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiplynch.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}