{"id":10722,"date":"2011-12-07T22:50:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T03:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10722"},"modified":"2011-12-08T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T16:26:19","slug":"mad-props-to-volkswagon-passat-ad-featuring-elton-johns-rocket-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mad-props-to-volkswagon-passat-ad-featuring-elton-johns-rocket-man\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Mad Props!<\/em> to Volkswagen Passat Ad Featuring Elton John&#8217;s &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bWy-LCGDsd8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>My wife seems capable of singing along with the lyrics to any song on the radio, even <strong>Elton John<\/strong> songs. I&#8217;ve always found him to be the most difficult singer to understand in rock, even more difficult to understand than <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/please-convince-me-what-are-the-words-fo\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Bowie<\/a><\/strong>. Thank you, Volkswagen Passat.<\/p>\n<p>In other rock-ad news, what&#8217;s your reaction to <strong>Devo<\/strong> doing those &#8220;Drink It&#8221; radio spots for <strong>Pepsi<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, speaking of Pepsi, can anyone clear up if it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-town-hall-seeks-field-of-64-specifically-named-dedicated-backing-bands-for-competition-to-determine%E2%80%A6once-and-for-all%E2%80%A6rock%E2%80%99s-greatest-backing-band-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Hawks<\/strong> or <strong>The Band<\/strong><\/a> playing on the following movie intermission ad?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gCxxi-uo_TI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife seems capable of singing along with the lyrics to any song on the radio, even Elton John songs. I&#8217;ve always found him to be the most difficult singer to understand in rock, even more difficult to understand than David Bowie. Thank you, Volkswagen Passat. In other rock-ad news, what&#8217;s your reaction to Devo <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mad-props-to-volkswagon-passat-ad-featuring-elton-johns-rocket-man\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[335,340,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}