{"id":986,"date":"2010-08-30T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/some-days-were-harder-than-otherssometimes-we\/"},"modified":"2010-08-30T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:05:46","slug":"some-days-were-harder-than-otherssometimes-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/some-days-were-harder-than-otherssometimes-we\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Some days were harder than others\u2026sometimes we would just smoke a ton of cigarettes and just stare at each other. Sometimes we would hit on something and magic would happen.<\/p>\n<p>One of these moments was a song called \u2018Mama\u2019. I remember we played an arena in Chicago and this line \u2018Mama, we all go to hell\u2019 just hit me, along with a melody. Ray and I worked out a small guitar part to go along with a melody and we tried it right away at sound check. I think we all knew as soon as we played it that it was some kind of new direction for us, one that was more theatrical than anything we had done\u2026to us it was even more \u2018cabaret\u2019 than \u2018You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It was pure. It was raw. It was unashamed.<\/p>\n<p>So we dug up her bones and started to work on her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Gerard Way, The Black Parade Special Edition booklet<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days were harder than others\u2026sometimes we would just smoke a ton of cigarettes and just stare at each other. Sometimes we would hit on something and magic would happen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn button-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/some-days-were-harder-than-otherssometimes-we\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","crio-premium-page-header-override":0,"crio-premium-page-header-select":"","crio-premium-page-header-background":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,40,15],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gerard-way","tag-mama","tag-special-edition","post_format-post-format-quote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}