{"id":12015,"date":"2012-01-31T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12015"},"modified":"2012-01-31T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:52:13","slug":"ferry-aid-the-aid-to-to-end-all-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ferry-aid-the-aid-to-to-end-all-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry Aid: The Aid to to End All Aids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPfdtZboNXY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Don&#8217;t worry, Bryan&#8217;s all right.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to make light of the <strong>Zeebrugge Disaster<\/strong>, involving the capsizing of a ferry in 1987, which killed 193 passengers and crew. I hope this effort raised money for the families. Cause aside, however, there are things you might find humorous in this (mostly minor) star-studded Ham-Off. What I&#8217;m curious to know, in the chronology of these &#8220;Aid&#8221; extravaganzas, is whether this is the last <em>original<\/em> Aid song of the genre? If the Aid Era started in 1984, with &#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas,&#8221; and the 1989 <strong>Band Aid II<\/strong> version doesn&#8217;t count because it&#8217;s not an original Aid song, what Aid event marked the end of this era? <strong>Live 8<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t quite the same. It&#8217;s a &#8220;8&#8221; event, not &#8220;Aid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But all that aside, who won this particular song?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry, Bryan&#8217;s all right. This is not to make light of the Zeebrugge Disaster, involving the capsizing of a ferry in 1987, which killed 193 passengers and crew. I hope this effort raised money for the families. Cause aside, however, there are things you might find humorous in this (mostly minor) star-studded Ham-Off. What <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ferry-aid-the-aid-to-to-end-all-aids\/' 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":[394,116,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015"}],"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=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}