{"id":1212,"date":"2010-02-12T13:21:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:21:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-12T13:21:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T13:21:27","slug":"anticipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/anticipation\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticipation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" width=\"425\" height=\"150\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s an old thread that I thought would get more play on its initial release. Guess I overestimated the anticipation Townspeople had for this topic. Or maybe it would have helped if I had introduced the piece with my tale of buying Elvis Costello&#8217;s<\/em> Imperial Bedroom <em>with a friend in New York on the day of its release and returning to his hometown of East Orange, NJ before breaking into his friend&#8217;s house through a basement window his friend once showed him how to open. There, while the kid and his parents were out doing productive things, we could<\/em> fire up <em>this new album in all its highly anticipated majesty. The statuate of limitations has passed on this youthful indescretion, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><code>This post initially appeared 2\/8\/08.<\/code><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gq_5QZDpY1Y?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Real simple:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s an opportunity to discuss at least two issues related to <del>today&#8217;s<\/del> poll.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What&#8217;s the last album you recall so greatly anticipating the release of to the degree that you made sure to buy it the day it came out?<\/li>\n<li>Can you share a particularly memorable story about a highly anticipated album release and first-day purchase?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I look forward to &#8211; <em>no<\/em>, I <strong>eagerly anticipate<\/strong> your responses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an old thread that I thought would get more play on its initial release. Guess I overestimated the anticipation Townspeople had for this topic. Or maybe it would have helped if I had introduced the piece with my tale of buying Elvis Costello&#8217;s Imperial Bedroom with a friend in New York on the day <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/anticipation\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"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=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}