{"id":1296,"date":"2025-10-11T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2025-10-11T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:41:49","slug":"song-of-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/11\/song-of-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Grok9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Grok9-687x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Grok9-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Grok9-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Grok9-768x1144.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Grok9.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shufflin-Noah-Song-of-the-Desert-edit.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Another track from our jam with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VKYO_2ZZYXs?si=CUBBFtTaC3zCtIOh\">Dale Belnap<\/a>, in what would become the title track to the collection of songs we came up with that night.  Bill, as always, inspiring us with some haunting Bedouin style vocals, and Matt building a story around them.  It turns out that Bill&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/dream-girl-2013-update\/\">Dream Girl <\/a>was finally found among a gypsy caravan wandering the dunes of Arabia.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another track from our jam with Dale Belnap, in what would become the title track to the collection of songs we came up with that night.  Bill, as always, inspiring us with some haunting Bedouin style vocals, and Matt building a story around them.  It turns out that Bill&#8217;s Dream Girl was finally found among a gypsy caravan wandering the dunes of Arabia.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-with-right-sidebar","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,23,10,40,14],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beel","tag-beel","tag-craziness","tag-guest-players","tag-matt","tag-song-of-the-desert-4-5-01-special-guest-dale-belnap-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shufflinnoah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}