{"id":1316,"date":"2008-03-24T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-24T09:07:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T09:07:52","slug":"idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes of Rock &#8216;n Roll, circa 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4HCMfkzqLVM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a clip from an early 1979 ABC special, <em>Heroes of Rock &#8216;n Roll<\/em>, which was hosted by <strong>Jeff Bridges<\/strong>. I&#8217;d forgotten about this special, but seeing this clip, I&#8217;m reminded of how important a tv-watching event it was when I was not quite 16. I believe pretty much the same artists who made me pump my fist triumphantly during that opening roll call made me pump my fist just now. I believe many of the same artists who made me scratch my head and say, <em>Huh?!?!<\/em> that night make me say the same thing today. There are a <strong>few exceptions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re old enough to span the initial broadcast of this special and today&#8217;s walk through memory lane, care to share <strong>your thoughts<\/strong> on that roll call, yesterday and today? If you don&#8217;t go back that far, feel free to share your <strong>fist-pumping vs head-scratching moments<\/strong> on this, your first viewing of the ancient special&#8217;s intro. If any discussion follows, I&#8217;ll be happy to share my few changes in perspective, or what might be termed &#8220;growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a clip from an early 1979 ABC special, Heroes of Rock &#8216;n Roll, which was hosted by Jeff Bridges. I&#8217;d forgotten about this special, but seeing this clip, I&#8217;m reminded of how important a tv-watching event it was when I was not quite 16. I believe pretty much the same artists who made me <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/idea\/' 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\/1316"}],"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=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}