{"id":322,"date":"2011-07-29T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/welcome\/cool-down-without-powering-up\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T00:46:00","slug":"cool-down-without-powering-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/cool-down-without-powering-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Down Without Powering Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A couple of weeks ago, I received my first songwriting commission: to write a song encouraging people to stay cool without turning on their air conditioning. A tall order to fill, especially since the client, <a href=\"http:\/\/hypenotic.com\/meaning-fulmarketing\/6363\/cool-down-make-cold-cash-from-hypenotic\">Hypenotic<\/a>, was in Toronto and Toronto was in the midst a major heat wave!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Out here Nova Scotia&#8217;s gloriously temperate South Shore, I took the four cool down techniques Hypenotic had given me and wrote them into a song. Then, I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/KirkComstock\">Kirk Comstock<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comstockrecordingstudios.ca\">Comstock Recording Studios<\/a> and we recorded it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Next, the folks at Hypenotic created an animated video to go with the song. Here&#8217;s the finished product. I hope you enjoy it and use some of these methods to conserve energy during the summer heat.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nw83w5MJNM4?fs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I received my first songwriting commission: to write a song encouraging people to stay cool without turning on their air conditioning. A tall order to fill, especially since the client, Hypenotic, was in Toronto and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/cool-down-without-powering-up\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,97,63,39,107,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-carbon-footprint","category-collaboration","category-community","category-conservation","category-fresh-air"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}