{"id":1096,"date":"2015-11-01T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T01:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2015-10-25T20:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:38:58","slug":"mike-vial-balancing-joy-sadness-and-teaching-as-a-songwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Mike Vial: Balancing joy, sadness, and teaching as a songwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/yt3.ggpht.com\/-wg2QHQs1m1g\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAAAAA\/-Aa8s7mDnO8\/s100-c-k-no\/photo.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Having, like Sting, left the teaching of English to follow his passion as a singer-songwriter, Mike Vial has developed a variety of new songs, new techniques, and new artistic outlets to enhance his music. Lately, he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_2015-10-Mike-Vial.mp3\">turned to writing haikus to stay sane and he shared some of these<\/a>, along with the most requested performer in his set once listeners learn he&#8217;s from Michigan (nope, sadly it&#8217;s not Bob Seger).<\/p>\n<p>Mike Vial will be in town with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixstring.org\/\">Six String Concerts<\/a> on\u00a0Friday, November 13th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3592\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1096-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_2015-10-Mike-Vial.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_2015-10-Mike-Vial.mp3\">http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_2015-10-Mike-Vial.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_2015-10-Mike-Vial.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1096-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Craft_2015-10-Mike-Vial.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_2015-10-Mike-Vial.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having, like Sting, left the teaching of English to follow his passion as a singer-songwriter, Mike Vial has developed a variety of new songs, new techniques, and new artistic outlets to enhance his music. Lately, he&#8217;s turned to writing haikus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1096\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,42],"tags":[264,263,262],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singer-songwriters","category-six-string-concerts","tag-acoustic","tag-burning-bright","tag-mike-vial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}