{"id":15399,"date":"2012-11-12T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=15399"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:59:55","slug":"the-colleen-nixon-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/12\/the-colleen-nixon-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colleen Nixon Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/rWJQANFCEos\/mqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>I can always tell if I haven&#8217;t had a Skype date with my niece in a while.\u00a0If I&#8217;ve watched the video of the song\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;Perfect&#8221;<\/span><\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/colleennixon.com\">Colleen Nixon<\/a> more than three times in a day, \u00a0then I&#8217;m overdue.\u00a0Today I&#8217;ve watched it five times&#8230; :-\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rWJQANFCEos?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=94&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I was first introduced to Colleen Nixon in <a href=\"http:\/\/nealobstat.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/12\/creating-culture\/\">a post by &#8220;Neal Obstat&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0at the time when she first launched her <a href=\"http:\/\/kickstarter.com\/projects\/colleennixon\/colleen-nixons-full-length-album\">Kickstarter campaign<\/a> to produce a new album.\u00a0Her musical style is somewhat hard to pin down. Pop? Jazz? Folk? I think it&#8217;s difficult to categorize because of her versatility and diversity of style.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Much like <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?s=audrey+assad\">Audrey Assad<\/a>, I find it hard to listen to her music without being arrested by her lyrics. For example, have a listen to this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gfFP0Yh9GiU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=34&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Great lyrics right? <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;Because you love me&#8230;completely&#8230; You won&#8217;t separate my body from my soul&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span>. It&#8217;s like Theology of the Body set to piano \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you&#8217;d like to listen to more of her music, her album\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/love-is-in-the-details\/id343874702\">Love Is In The Details<\/a>\u00a0is available for purchase and it really is wonderful. Unfortunately only has six tracks, but they&#8217;re all great. I hear that her next album,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>Lake Ella\u2019s Sky<\/em><\/span>, should be out very soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Oh, and speaking of new releases,\u00a0I just found out that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitgoo.com\/692jw8\">Maximilian Michael Nixon<\/a>\u00a0was welcomed into the world two days ago! Please send up a short (or long!) prayer for Colleen and her family \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can always tell if I haven&#8217;t had a Skype date with my niece in a while.\u00a0If I&#8217;ve watched the video of the song\u00a0&#8220;Perfect&#8221; by Colleen Nixon more than three times in a day, \u00a0then I&#8217;m overdue.\u00a0Today I&#8217;ve watched it five times&#8230; :-\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[1776,1775,1778,1777,1440],"class_list":["post-15399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-humour","tag-colleen-mccarron","tag-colleen-nixon","tag-love-is-in-the-details","tag-niece","tag-perfect"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15399"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56600,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15399\/revisions\/56600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}