{"id":11470,"date":"2012-01-14T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T18:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=11470"},"modified":"2012-01-25T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T14:59:17","slug":"rock-town-hall-a-home-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-a-home-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Town Hall: A Home for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In our continuing review of Rock Town Hall’s first 5 years<\/a> as a blog, we will be providing some brief reviews of\u00a0key aspects of this place. The hope is these overviews will pay homage to the contributions of our peers and provide newcomers\u00a0easy access into the blog’s rich past.\u00a0Let’s look at Rock Town Hall’s role as a home for the holidays.<\/p>\n

Typically readership and participation in the Halls of Rock dips during any holiday. That’s probably to be expected: people do have lives. That doesn’t mean the Hall doesn’t celebrate the holidays\u2014and even create new holidays to satisfy music lovers’ need for observance.<\/p>\n

The Hall’s observance of Christmas<\/strong>, for instance,\u00a0has a rich tradition, beginning with\u00a0our northvancoveman<\/strong>-spearheaded Christmas mixes<\/a>, alexmagic<\/strong>‘s\u00a0touching And Tonight It’s Their Hair Instead of Yours<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0capped off each Christmas eve by hrrundivbakshi<\/strong>‘s tear-jerker, The Rock Town Hall Christmas Story\u00a0Is Retold<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prime among the Rock-olidays<\/strong><\/a> Townspeople have created, however, may be The Day the Music Died<\/a><\/strong>, observed annually each February 3<\/a><\/strong>. This, of course, is the day music lovers take pause to memorialize<\/a> the tragic plane crash<\/a> that prematurely cut short the careers of Buddy Holly<\/a><\/strong>, Ritchie Valens<\/strong>, and perhaps most tragically, The Big Bopper<\/a><\/strong>. The only thing Rock Town Hall was not able to achieve by officially recognizing this holiday was giving folks a day off from work.<\/p>\n

Other popular rock-olidays we have created and celebrated\u00a0include California Day<\/a><\/strong>, recognizing the the Golden State’s contributions<\/a> to rock ‘n roll; the self-explanatory\u00a0JAMuary<\/a><\/strong>, which to date in 2012 we have sadly overlooked; and Exploitive Black Rock History Month<\/a><\/strong>, which\u00a0recognizes\u00a0events\u00a0in rock that\u00a0may\u00a0not in fact\u00a0be a cause for celebration.<\/p>\n

Finally, it was not exactly\u00a0a rock-oliday, but few events in the history or Rock Town Hall were as memorable as our 2007 KISS Army Reunion<\/strong>, including reflections pro<\/a>, con<\/a>, and all shades in between<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our continuing review of Rock Town Hall’s first 5 years as a blog, we will be providing some brief reviews of\u00a0key aspects of this place. The hope is these overviews will pay homage to the contributions of our peers and provide newcomers\u00a0easy access into the blog’s rich past.\u00a0Let’s look at Rock Town Hall’s role […]<\/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":[565,578],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470"}],"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=11470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}