{"id":946,"date":"2015-12-31T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/particulart.org.uk\/?p=946"},"modified":"2022-01-07T23:25:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:25:35","slug":"swimby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/2015\/12\/31\/swimby\/","title":{"rendered":"SWIMBY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mattharvey.co.uk\/2016\/09\/the-swimby-musical-songbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Something Wonderful in My Back Yard&#8221;<\/a>, or &#8220;SWIMBY&#8221;, was originally conceived by producer Chloe Uden with the working title: &#8220;Transition Town &#8211; The Musical&#8221;. It tackles a very different subject to your common-or-garden musical: how do a motley group of ordinary, argumentative people persuade their make-do-and-mend, muddle-through market town to embrace community food and energy schemes and become more resilient? It was written by poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattharvey.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Harvey<\/a> and composer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomashewittjones.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Hewitt Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Early on in the process, I bumped into Matt at the Renewable Energy Marketplace show, and tickled his fancy with &#8220;Particulart&#8221; and the poetry of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin. The idea was born for a character spending the musical on stage knitting carbon dioxide. And so &#8220;Particulart&#8221; and the pattern for knit-your-own carbon dioxide is featured in the SWIMBY musical songbook!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/SWIMBY-songbook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14020\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/SWIMBY.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cSomething Wonderful in My Back Yard: The Songbook\u201d, Quixotic Press, 2015.\" \/><\/a> \u201cSomething Wonderful in My Back Yard: The Songbook\u201d, Quixotic Press, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Something Wonderful in My Back Yard&#8221;, or &#8220;SWIMBY&#8221;, was originally conceived by producer Chloe Uden with the working title: &#8220;Transition Town &#8211; The Musical&#8221;. It tackles a very different subject to your common-or-garden musical: how do a motley group of ordinary, argumentative people persuade their make-do-and-mend, muddle-through market town to\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/2015\/12\/31\/swimby\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/particulart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}