{"id":1228,"date":"2008-02-18T08:53:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T13:53:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-18T08:53:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T08:53:43","slug":"happy-birthday-yoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/happy-birthday-yoko\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Yoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2CE7CIWXzno?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Why?<\/em> Today, I suggest we celebrate Yoko&#8217;s unfulfilled promise &#8211; or should I say the unfulfilled promise of the <strong>Plastic Ono Band<\/strong>. While <strong>The Back Office<\/strong> works to set up Rock Town Hall&#8217;s first official listening party, giving rock nerds who shockingly have not yet heard either of the Plastic Ono Band albums a chance to do so while sitting cross-legged in a semi-circle with the rest of us, let&#8217;s contemplate why anyone ever suggested to Yoko that she ever try to sing like a regular human being, why <strong>John<\/strong> stopped making records that had the excitement of real musicians playing in real time, and so forth. Why.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<em>Advanced mathematics!<\/em><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fdQvV7yCT3w?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Why Yoko ultimately deserved rock&#8217;s rotten tomato?<\/em><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oKjN0rLW4fE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why? Today, I suggest we celebrate Yoko&#8217;s unfulfilled promise &#8211; or should I say the unfulfilled promise of the Plastic Ono Band. While The Back Office works to set up Rock Town Hall&#8217;s first official listening party, giving rock nerds who shockingly have not yet heard either of the Plastic Ono Band albums a chance <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/happy-birthday-yoko\/' 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\/1228"}],"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=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}