{"id":372942,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/372942/?format=json","airdate":"2019-08-27T10:10:53-07:00","show":6214,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/6214/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Blind","track_id":"5f21fbad-49fa-3c0c-a483-f864032bab44","recording_id":null,"artist":"Talking Heads","artist_ids":["a94a7155-c79d-4409-9fcf-220cb0e4dc3a"],"album":"Once in a Lifetime","release_id":"a0e0a03b-55ac-3c13-b2cd-28ada90a2cf1","release_group_id":null,"labels":["Rhino"],"label_ids":["c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4"],"release_date":"2003-11-18","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Thanks, Jason, for this mix, made for you and your fellow architecture students at the University of Oregon.   In a 1988 interview, David Byrne said of the lyrics of \"Blind,\" “It’s pure imagination, but it comes out of reading the daily paper. It’s a cry of anguish. It’s a man crying, rather than a woman. And I think it’s directed at the authorities...Terrible things are happening, civil strife. It definitely goes beyond just lack of sight.\":  http://nightflight.com/talking-heads-blind-video-was-a-parody-of-partisan-politics-wrenched-from-the-headlines/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}