{"id":3736,"date":"2011-10-09T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:04:14","slug":"mare-wakefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/mare-wakefield\/","title":{"rendered":"MARE WAKEFIELD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-MARE-WAKEFIELD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3737\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-MARE-WAKEFIELD.jpg\" alt=\"MARE WAKEFIELD\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-MARE-WAKEFIELD.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-MARE-WAKEFIELD-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>M<\/strong><strong>ARE WAKEFIELD<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Meant to Be<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>marewakefield.com<\/p>\n<p>The letter to heaven is a common songwriting device, especially for folk and country artists, but Nashville songstress Mare Wakefield addresses the Almighty in a unique way. \u201cIn case you don\u2019t know,\u201d she sings, having just accused God of letting humanity destroy itself, \u201cif we go, you go.\u201d It\u2019s a song of faith and skepticism\u2014a prayer from someone who believes religion is man-made. \u201cIf We Go, You Go\u201d is this disc\u2019s most ambitious, thought-provoking track, but Wakefield fares just as well on songs about young love and backyard strolls. If there\u2019s a downside to her honeyed vocals and effortless melodies, it\u2019s that they distract from the details that give her lyrics their luster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARE WAKEFIELD Meant to Be marewakefield.com The letter to heaven is a common songwriting device, especially for folk and country artists, but Nashville songstress Mare Wakefield addresses the Almighty in a unique way. \u201cIn case you don\u2019t know,\u201d she sings, having just accused God of letting humanity destroy itself, \u201cif we go, you go.\u201d It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,2482,2564,2562,2563],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3775,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}