{"id":1268,"date":"2008-03-07T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-07T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T15:00:25","slug":"they-called-it-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/they-called-it-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"They Called It Rock&#8230;Do We Still?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tXVTbW6Z5zE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis topic for discussion might reek of Rockism like no topic that&#8217;s ever crossed my mind, but I suspect I&#8217;m not the only person to have thought the following &#8211; and even if I am I suspect someone will get outwardly annoyed that I&#8217;ve considered these thoughts, leading to another action-packed day in the Halls of Rock:<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sV1a6UBdrPk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What&#8217;s the point at which you cannot call an album marketed, broadly, as a &#8220;rock&#8221; release a <em>Rock<\/em> album?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a particular album you recall crossing your <strong>Mendoza Line of Rock<\/strong>?<\/li>\n<li>What makes one of these questionably Rock artists marketed under the Rock banner rather than the banner of some other genre, even a new one that someone needs to create?<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the all-important <strong>Mwall<\/strong>-style converse question: which artist who&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> marketed as Rock do you feel should be?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please keep in mind that your answers might help us all to better understand exactly what Rock music is in 2008. I, for one, look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This topic for discussion might reek of Rockism like no topic that&#8217;s ever crossed my mind, but I suspect I&#8217;m not the only person to have thought the following &#8211; and even if I am I suspect someone will get outwardly annoyed that I&#8217;ve considered these thoughts, leading to another action-packed day in the Halls <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/they-called-it-rock\/' 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\/1268"}],"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=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}