{"id":1155,"date":"2008-01-21T22:43:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T03:43:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-22T08:43:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T08:43:26","slug":"i-didn-t-fall-in-love-with-boney-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-didn-t-fall-in-love-with-boney-m\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn&#8217;t Fall In Love With Boney M!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Boney_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Rejected by all right-thinking Americans<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are lots of pop artists out there that I&#8217;m supposed to like but don&#8217;t &#8212; and the ratio of pop idols I&#8217;m supposed to like versus pop idols I actually like diminishes with each year I advance in decrepitude.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent outing to my favorite Bolivian restaurant, the correctness of my convictions about 1970s\/&#8217;80s global megastars <strong>Boney M<\/strong> was soundly confirmed.  That&#8217;s because I finally witnessed Boney M <em>in concert<\/em>, on the big screen usually reserved for soccer matches, while wolfing down my stew.  These guys are the perfect distillation of everything that makes me sometimes think the rest of the world &#8212; but particularly Germany &#8212; is out of its fucking tree.  This is what I saw:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YgemkqLRing?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Just wanted to make sure you all knew that it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;ve gone all Euro on you or anything.  America still kicks the most ass!    <\/p>\n<p>HVB, Super-Patriot<\/p>\n<p>p.s.:  I still dig that Kylie song, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rejected by all right-thinking Americans There are lots of pop artists out there that I&#8217;m supposed to like but don&#8217;t &#8212; and the ratio of pop idols I&#8217;m supposed to like versus pop idols I actually like diminishes with each year I advance in decrepitude. On a recent outing to my favorite Bolivian restaurant, the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-didn-t-fall-in-love-with-boney-m\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}