{"id":1702,"date":"2026-08-14T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:24:27","slug":"decoy-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/decoy-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoy available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decoy is available for a limited time on streaming services. We are working on trying to bypass streaming services for future releases. I WANT YOU HERE. I want you to have my music on your phone permanently and on a CD or other physical format.<br \/>\nImagine this. In less than 24 hours my music could be removed from all streaming platforms and it would cease to exist. But if the Beatles were taking down, they would always exist somewhere on a CD, record or hard-drive. This is something I learned while I was on my musical hiatus. I was investing in the decentralized web, and learning about block chains structures, IPFS and other nerdy things i won&#8217;t go into because I am sure I have already lost many at this point. The greater message is redundant nods of my music is what will get the messages I&#8217;m  sending to &#8220;the other side&#8221;. So yes, I think it&#8217;s important to download music along with streaming it. I also think that holding a medium in your hand is very personal and it is something that can be left behind for others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decoy is available for a limited time on streaming services. We are working on trying to bypass streaming services for future releases. I WANT YOU HERE. I want you to have my music on your phone permanently and on a CD or other physical format. Imagine this. In less than 24 hours my music could &#8230; <a title=\"Decoy available\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/decoy-available\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Decoy available<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}