{"id":11870,"date":"2012-01-25T07:29:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2012-01-25T07:29:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T12:29:37","slug":"spoiler-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/spoiler-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>SPOILER ALERT!<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uz_TI80pSfw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>It&#8217;s become commonplace for film and television critics to offset a key piece of plot twist information in a review with a <em>SPOILER ALERT!<\/em> warning. Imagine, if you can, a world in which more than a few thousand rock nerds like us really cared about the twists and turns of a song, those parts people like us find unexpected and\u00a0exhilarating, like the\u2014<em>SPOILER ALERT!<\/em>\u2014buzz-heightening\u00a0typewriter\/<strong>Phil Manzanera<\/strong> guitar solo that pops up out of the blue in <strong>Brian Eno<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;China My China&#8221; or the\u2014<em>SPOILER ALERT!<\/em>\u2014gravitas-deepening appearance of The Boss, <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>, in\u00a0<strong>Lou Reed<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Street Hassle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If rock critics found it helpful to add a\u00a0<em>SPOILER ALERT!<\/em> to their review of records, what records might call for such a disclaimer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become commonplace for film and television critics to offset a key piece of plot twist information in a review with a SPOILER ALERT! warning. Imagine, if you can, a world in which more than a few thousand rock nerds like us really cared about the twists and turns of a song, those parts people <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/spoiler-alert\/' 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":[231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870"}],"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=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}