{"id":146,"date":"2026-04-23T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:46:42","slug":"the-story-behind-the-song-private-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/23\/the-story-behind-the-song-private-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind the Song: \u201cPrivate Revolution\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I believe this was the first song I completed after Chameleon Red\u2019s <em>Skeleton Crew<\/em> was released, in February of 2014, to be exact. In fact, it became a part of that band\u2019s repertoire. I was at a place of great stress and change at the time, hence the lyrics exploring clarification of what I really needed, as separate from the manufactured needs of consumerism. I was, and remain, proud of the structure of the song\u2019s arrangement, which was somewhat unusual without drawing attention to itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the second song I recorded in the Covid-19 isolation series, in May 2020; the video quickly followed. I got a little fancier with the green screen and used what I had learned to improve the overall video production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe this was the first song I completed after Chameleon Red\u2019s Skeleton Crew was released, in February of 2014, to be exact. In fact,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/23\/the-story-behind-the-song-private-revolution\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story Behind the Song: \u201cPrivate Revolution\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,10,11,7],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-behind-the","tag-independent-music","tag-indie","tag-indie-music","tag-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}