{"id":6821,"date":"2016-01-28T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T13:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=6821"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:54:41","slug":"growing-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/01\/28\/growing-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/span>A community I belong to is my group of friends, best friends to be exact. Despite high school being a place where you discover yourself and your interests, I managed to meet 5 stranger sand they became my best friends. All of us of with similar, yet different backgrounds, nationalities, aspirations and taste.<\/p>\n

Each one of us has a distinct music taste. Some of them prefer Spanish music, others like pop while others are into rock, and others like country. Personally, I fall into the category that listens to a little bit of everything. \u00a0Every time we get in a car, the big debate breaks out, who\u2019s music choice will we be stuck listening to the whole ride? You definitely want to be the one who gets the aux cord, so you aren\u2019t miserable if you hate the other person\u2019s music choice. And I\u2019m sure many people can relate to this. Luckily for my group of friends, we\u2019ve come to be in these situations so often that we now like each other’s music, and although we may not be crazy for the genre, we\u2019re at least able to tolerate it!<\/p>\n

The one genre that brings us to agreement is country music. Yes, there are debates over who we think is a better artist whether it be Sam Hunt<\/a>, Hunter Hayes<\/a>, Kenny Chesney<\/a>, George Strait<\/a> or Johnny Cash<\/a>, but it allows us to come together and share something. Now that we have gone off to different colleges and cities, we\u2019ve grown a bit apart, but whenever we are together or are logged on to our group chats we mention new music we are currently into or songs we are relating to at the moment.<\/p>\n

Since my friends are hispanic, our other friends and family aren\u2019t used to listening to country music. I don\u2019t think that they have anything against the music, but it isn\u2019t something that the majority of the hispanic community is listening to in huge numbers. It sometimes sets us apart from the rest of the group and when we choose country music to play with others, we get a look of bewilderment and a \u201cyou like country music?\u201d. The fact that it sets us apart from the rest allows us to come together more because it is something we share with one another. Country songs are about telling stories and being able to relate to one another which is why it\u2019s able to bring my group of friends closer together. Music has the power to make people happy and bring them together, but country songs in particular are about people and different kinds of relationships. And due to this it gives us a kind of bond that we wouldn\u2019t be able to experience in other ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A community I belong to is my group of friends, best friends to be exact. Despite high school being a place where you discover yourself and your interests, I managed to meet 5 stranger sand they became my best friends. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post-1","category-class-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6941,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6821\/revisions\/6941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}