{"id":654,"date":"2005-12-20T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2005-12-20T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T22:53:00","slug":"twelve-days-of-death-cab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/twelve-days-of-death-cab\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve days of Death Cab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory?id=1425768\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is interesting &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW YORK  \u2014 Death Cab for Cutie has plans for new \u201cDirections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each song from the band\u2019s Grammy-nominated album, \u201cPlans,\u201d has been made into a music video, adding up to an anthology of 12 short films titled, \u201cDirections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The videos, created by 12 different directors, will be unveiled one by one on Death Cab for Cutie\u2019s Web site early next month, it was announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our hope that this project serves as a model to both labels and bands as a way to grant the directors the type and amount of freedom we\u2019ve enjoyed in the creation of the music itself,\u201d frontman Ben Gibbard said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Band members don\u2019t appear in the films, which were made with small budgets. The band hoped the videos would be both individual pieces and also work together as a unified whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlans,\u201d the band\u2019s fifth album, has a Grammy nomination for best alternative album.<\/p>\n<p>Death for Cutie will be the musical guest on NBC\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d on Jan. 14 with host Scarlett Johansson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting &#8230; NEW YORK \u2014 Death Cab for Cutie has plans for new \u201cDirections.\u201d Each song from the band\u2019s Grammy-nominated album, \u201cPlans,\u201d has been made into a music video, adding up to an anthology of 12 short films titled, \u201cDirections.\u201d The videos, created by 12 different directors, will be unveiled one by one on Death Cab for Cutie\u2019s Web site early next month, it was announced Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s our hope that this project&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-ay","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}