{"id":523,"date":"2014-08-01T21:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T21:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/?p=523"},"modified":"2014-08-01T21:26:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T21:26:34","slug":"weekly-update-august-1st-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/2014\/08\/01\/weekly-update-august-1st-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update: August 1st, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Get the new Jars Album Early!<\/strong><br \/>\nEarlier this week, Jars of Clay announced that they will be releasing their new album <em>early<\/em> to fans who have contributed to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgemusic.com\/projects\/jarsofclay\">PledgeMusic campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"pledgemusic.com\/projects\/jarsofclay\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-513 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jars20cover-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"jars20cover\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jars20cover-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jars20cover-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jars20cover-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jars20cover.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs a huge \u201cThank You\u201d to all who joined us in this Jars 20 album project, we are going to offer you the digital album before it is officially available. On Tuesday August 5th, we will have the album download ready for you in your PledgeMusic account. The album will not be available in stores until August 19th but we wanted to give you, our great fans, the first chance to enjoy the whole album. We can not thank you enough for your participation in the making of this album!<\/p>\n<p>[Read the rest of the update on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgemusic.com\/projects\/jarsofclay\/updates\/39122\">PledgeMusic<\/a>]<br \/>\n<font color=\"#f4f4f4\">.<\/font>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t pledged yet, time is running out! Fans will\u00a0only have through August 18th to pledge and get the new album early &#8211; along with other awesome rewards. <a href=\"pledgemusic.com\/projects\/jarsofclay\">Click here<\/a> to visit their campaign&#8217;s page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jars of Clay Performs Redemption Songs StageIt<\/strong><br \/>\nEarlier this week, the band performed two StageIt web concerts featuring songs from\u00a0<em>Redemption Songs<\/em>. The concert was a part of their ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23jars20\">Jars 20<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jarsofclay\/status\/494296576257716224\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-525\" src=\"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RSSI-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"RSSI\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RSSI-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RSSI-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RSSI-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RSSI.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been missing out on these special performances, you can still catch the band\u00a0playing through songs from\u00a0<em>Good Monsters<\/em>, <em>The Long Fall Back to Earth<\/em>, and more!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stageit.com\/jarsofclay\">Click here<\/a> to view the schedule\u00a0of upcoming concerts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jars of Clay at U.S. &#8211; Africa Leaders Summit<\/strong><br \/>\nToday, Jars of Clay performed in Washington, D.C. to help kick off the first-ever\u00a0<em>U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit<\/em>. The band represented Blood:Water Mission as a part of the\u00a0<em>Faith Works<\/em> event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jarsofclay\/status\/495161170102591489\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-524\" src=\"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/USAID-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"USAID\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/USAID-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/USAID-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/USAID-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/USAID.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the U.S. &#8211; Africa Leaders Summit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/africasummit\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodwater.org\/\">Blood:Water Mission<\/a>, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the new Jars Album Early! Earlier this week, Jars of Clay announced that they will be releasing their new album early to fans who have contributed to their PledgeMusic campaign: As a huge \u201cThank You\u201d to all who joined us in this Jars 20 album project, we are going to offer you the digital &#8230; <a title=\"Weekly Update: August 1st, 2014\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/2014\/08\/01\/weekly-update-august-1st-2014\/\" aria-label=\"More on Weekly Update: August 1st, 2014\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,14,21,41,67],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-20th-anniversary","tag-bloodwater","tag-concerts","tag-pledgemusic-campaign","tag-redemption-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jarchives.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}