{"id":654,"date":"2015-07-01T22:46:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T22:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/?page_id=654"},"modified":"2020-07-09T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:18:24","slug":"not-a-mission-statement-but-a-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/?page_id=654","title":{"rendered":"Not a mission statement, but a mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-617\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/tomwann-270x250.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-617 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/tomwann-270x250.png\" alt=\"tomwann-270x250\" width=\"270\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saint Tom Wann: Patron Saint of those who don&#8217;t take no crap from nobody<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I make music and I write words. Until recently, I said I wasn&#8217;t looking for an audience. I think that was honest for a while. Now, I&#8217;m available for almost anything the traffic will allow.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy writing, making music, and performing \u00a0which is why I continue to do them. I will continue to say that I only try to please my biggest and only fan, myself. While that is most certainly true, I&#8217;ve finally jumped the fence back into the public realm. I never really left, but I didn&#8217;t have the time to <em>promote.<\/em> I&#8217;m out playing as many of the shows I&#8217;ve been previewing in my head these past few decades.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not changing my essential perspective that I do this for me and if anybody wants to come along for the ride, all aboard. However, we&#8217;re all either on the bus or not on the bus and riding is a fully voluntary activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, I&#8217;m doing more stuff and I&#8217;m going to be more public about it. As always, I take requests but I only take them seriously when they are written on large denomination US currency.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<br \/>your pal Kelly<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make music and I write words. Until recently, I said I wasn&#8217;t looking for an audience. I think that was honest for a while. Now, I&#8217;m available for almost<a href=\"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/?page_id=654\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not a mission statement, but a mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-654","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kelly-raines.com\/kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}