{"id":120,"date":"2007-01-16T03:53:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T08:53:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-15T22:54:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T22:54:37","slug":"psychic-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/psychic-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychic Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sXmgkvIgc0w&amp;feature?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>Ah, <strong>Psychic Oblivion<\/strong>. A sleazy but genteel white, middle-class self-obsession that finally focuses on the negation of that same self in a long, slow, meaningless fadeout in obscure locations that&#8217;s accompanied by a soft-rock soundtrack. Think of it as <em>soft-rock existentialism<\/em>. See as typical examples the complete ouevre of <strong>James Taylor<\/strong> and <strong>Jimmy Buffet&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;Margaritaville.&#8221; Extra points for recognizing why &#8220;Cheeseburger in Paradise&#8221; is a stone cold Psychic Oblivion classic.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Submitted by our <strong>West Coast Townsman<\/strong>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Psychic Oblivion. A sleazy but genteel white, middle-class self-obsession that finally focuses on the negation of that same self in a long, slow, meaningless fadeout in obscure locations that&#8217;s accompanied by a soft-rock soundtrack. Think of it as soft-rock existentialism. See as typical examples the complete ouevre of James Taylor and Jimmy Buffet&#8217;s &#8220;Margaritaville.&#8221; <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/psychic-oblivion\/' 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":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"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=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}