{"id":1757,"date":"2026-10-26T06:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:21:51","slug":"birthing-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/birthing-a-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthing a song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often refer to the process of writing a song as it sort of a &#8220;coming into the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For me it&#8217;s like that. One minute I don&#8217;t have a thing on my mind, and then this melody appears, or a beat, or guitar lick, or an idea, or whatever. I may sit on it for years or just seconds. But once the final recording is complete, to me it&#8217;s like that song was &#8220;born&#8221; into the world. No matter how intimate the process is, the moment it is &#8220;birthed&#8221; it seems to have always been destined. In that regard that song has sovereignty and is really no longer mine. When I listen to a song like Jenna, which is now over 20 years old, I enjoy it exactly the way a fan would. It&#8217;s no longer\u00a0 &#8220;my song&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It just is.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I enjoy writing and recording under Aketous. I can detach myself even more from the music and enjoy it NOW, the same way anyone else does. It&#8217;s my life, my stories but I still find something new buried in my own lyrics. It&#8217;s very mystical to me. Or maybe better said- spiritual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often refer to the process of writing a song as it sort of a &#8220;coming into the world&#8221;. For me it&#8217;s like that. One minute I don&#8217;t have a thing on my mind, and then this melody appears, or a beat, or guitar lick, or an idea, or whatever. I may sit on it &#8230; <a title=\"Birthing a song\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/birthing-a-song\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birthing a song<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1720,"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":[79,44],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farris","tag-aketous","tag-darren-farris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","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=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenfarris.com\/band\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}