{"id":1499,"date":"2019-12-16T09:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2019-12-16T09:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:03:54","slug":"interview-with-mr-mullins-of-the-cold-stares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Mr. Mullins of The Cold Stares"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <em>&#8220;I hope music is a release from those  exact things that divide us. All music. I want to get as far away from  that division as I can, personally. Many acts I love have had political  statements, lyrics, causes, platforms and so on. That doesn\u2019t have  anything to do with what I love about their art, whether I agree with  them or not.&#8221;<\/em>  &#8211; Brian Mullins of The Cold Stares<\/p><cite>From blues.gr interview by Michael Limnios<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full interview here&#8211;> <a href=\"http:\/\/blues.gr\/profiles\/blogs\/q-a-with-drummer-brian-mullins-of-the-cold-stares-indiana-based-h\">http:\/\/blues.gr\/profiles\/blogs\/q-a-with-drummer-brian-mullins-of-the-cold-stares-indiana-based-h<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"479\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TCS_Brian_Whitesburg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TCS_Brian_Whitesburg.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TCS_Brian_Whitesburg-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><figcaption>Brian Mullins of The Cold Stares<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hope music is a release from those exact things that divide us. All music. I want to get as far away from that division as I can, personally. Many acts I love have had political statements, lyrics, causes, platforms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?p=1499\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[125,516,17,96,24,519,354,109,510,511,517,518,388,84,521,69,239],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-acoustic","tag-aquarian","tag-blues","tag-brianmullins","tag-drums","tag-dw","tag-hardrock","tag-interview","tag-ludwig","tag-paiste","tag-remo","tag-sabian","tag-samphillipsrecording","tag-southerngothic","tag-southernrock","tag-thecoldstares","tag-ways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}