{"id":115,"date":"2025-02-21T18:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2025-02-21T20:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:30:15","slug":"lifeguard-by-vanessa-lowder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Lifeguard by Vanessa Lowder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Released on September 9, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second single from Chicago&#8217;s Vanessa Lowder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lifeguard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lifeguard-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lifeguard-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lifeguard-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lifeguard-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lifeguard-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lifeguard-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lifeguard-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lifeguard-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Music &amp; Lyric: Vanessa Lowder<br><br>Vanessa Lowder: Vocals<br>Jason Brownell: Instruments<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Producer: Revenant Ventures<br>Engineer: Jason Brownell<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/distrokid.com\/hyperfollow\/vanessalowder\/lifeguard\">Link to major streaming services<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lifeguard-by-Vanessa-Lowder.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Audio: &#8220;Lifeguard&#8221; by Vanessa Lowder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Lifeguard\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; 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What are you waiting for?<br>Why are you waiting? What are you waiting for?<br>Why are you waiting? What are you waiting for?<br>Why are you waiting? What are you waiting for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 2022 Vanessa Lowder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released on September 9, 2022 The second single from Chicago&#8217;s Vanessa Lowder Music &amp; Lyric: Vanessa Lowder Vanessa Lowder: VocalsJason Brownell: Instruments Producer: Revenant VenturesEngineer: Jason Brownell Link to major streaming services Download MP3 Lifeguard Summer spentWith Laine by the poolDoing nothing but it was fineI think we hang out too muchBut I want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revenantventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}