{"id":10971,"date":"2012-05-31T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10971"},"modified":"2012-06-04T09:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:53:35","slug":"track-and-field-mixtape-keanes-the-starting-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-05\/track-and-field-mixtape-keanes-the-starting-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Track and Field Mixtape&#8211;Keane&#8217;s &#8220;The Starting Line&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headed into the <strong>California State Track and Field Championships<\/strong>, the <strong>NCAA Championships<\/strong> at Drake Stadium, the <strong>Olympic Qualifier<\/strong> in Eugene, and eventually the <strong>London Olympics<\/strong>, we add a seasons-end song to the mix.\u00a0 For some athletes their season is complete, all effort given and exploited in their exploits.\u00a0 Some may have remorse (or joy) in being done.\u00a0 May this song serve as encouragement on any and all levels.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the ever-melodic Brit-band, <strong>Keane<\/strong> (with ever-cherubic lead singer <strong>Tom Chaplin<\/strong>) playing their recent song, <em><strong>The Starting Line<\/strong><\/em>, in Manchester last night (this interwebs thing just might catch on).\u00a0 After, check out an acoustic version of the same song which reminds of favorite fellow Brit-band <strong>Travis<\/strong> and the vocals of <strong>The Antlers&#8217; Peter Silberman<\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8220;Drag your heart up to the starting line, forget the ghosts that make you old before your time, it&#8217;s too easy to get left behind&#8230;.&#8221;\u00a0 Indeed.\u00a0 Back at it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Keane - The Starting Line live Manchester Apollo 30-05-12\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/59C64sldDs0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Keane - The Starting Line (Live At Sea Fog) [Acoustic]\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/64QEPx2tH_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headed into the California State Track and Field Championships, the NCAA Championships at Drake Stadium, the Olympic Qualifier in Eugene, and eventually the London Olympics, we add a seasons-end song to the mix.\u00a0 For some athletes their season is complete, all effort given and exploited in their exploits.\u00a0 Some may have remorse (or joy) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}