{"id":87,"date":"2012-08-22T10:05:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T15:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicwillsavetheday.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2012-08-22T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T15:05:41","slug":"a-message-from-the-founder-houston-golden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/2012\/08\/a-message-from-the-founder-houston-golden\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message From The Founder, Houston Golden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Why did I start this philanthropy? \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Ever since I began writing and recording my own music at the age of 14, I have been selling my music online, and, over the years, I\u2019ve used many different online music merchants and digital retailers with varying degrees of satisfaction and success. Nearly a decade later, after watching the power of the Internet cripple the old music industry model, I\u2019ve decided that it is now time for more alternative and progressive formats to be invented.<\/p>\n<p>I have reached a point of disillusionment about the benefits of selling my music through major online merchants, such as iTunes, who take 30% of all artists\u2019 royalties. \u201cThey don\u2019t deserve, nor do they <strong>need<\/strong>, the hard earned pennies of artists!\u201d I exclaimed to a friend. Then the light bulb idea appeared: \u00a0 Why not create a music merchant service that gives those pennies to people and places who really and truly need them?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0&#8221;If you are giving away your music for free already, why not donate your songs to charity too?! The answer to that question is the reason for Music Will Save The Day.&#8221; &#8211; Houston Golden, Founder of Music Will Save The Day<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MusicWillSaveTheDay.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musicwillsavetheday.com\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Music Will Save The Day.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a> is the first music distribution platform that donates 100% of sales to charity.<\/p>\n<p>Find a way to get involved by donating your music, donating by downloading, or by spreading the word about our cause. The philanthropic music movement has begun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Houston<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did I start this philanthropy? \u00a0Ever since I began writing and recording my own music at the age of 14, I have been selling my music online, and, over the years, I\u2019ve used many different online music merchants and digital retailers with varying degrees of satisfaction and success. Nearly a decade later, after watching [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/2012\/08\/a-message-from-the-founder-houston-golden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/artofblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}