{"id":13223,"date":"2012-04-25T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13223"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T18:22:41","slug":"rth-quickie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-quickie\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH-Quickie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would&#8217;ve categorized this as &#8220;News&#8221; but&#8230;really? &#8220;News&#8221;?! I received this email the other day from a local radio station and it was entitled:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">BREAKING NEWS:<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">JOE WALSH IS SOBER<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s a quote from the note:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201cA whole new world\u2026\u201d That\u2019s what the legendary Joe Walsh told me as he described life as a sober Rock star. He\u2019s feeling great, and we couldn\u2019t be happier for him. I thought you might want to see the chat I had with Joe&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qpKLtRqkQ2g?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lots of questions come to mind after receiving this email and watching the video.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Who cares? Seriously. Good for Joe but is this &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; worthy? Even coming from a radio station it doesn&#8217;t feel like a big-whoop to me. &#8220;Joe Walsh Dies&#8221; would be breaking news. &#8220;Joe Walsh Has a Sex Change Operation&#8221; could also be breaking news&#8230; And if it is breaking newsworthy then it begs the question: <strong><em>whoa, how much effing booze has this dude downed?<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He says in the video interview that he got sober in 1994. Did I hear that right? So that would be 18 years ago. I&#8217;m not a Joe Walsh follower and am not an Eagles fan but if this is right then what about &#8220;Joe Walsh is Sober&#8221; is <em>breaking <\/em>in any way?<\/li>\n<li>1994. Feels like that is about 14\u201415 years too late anyhoo. Just me?<\/li>\n<li>Joe looks to be wearing a Joy Division t-shirt based on the Unknown Pleasures cover. WTF? This is in fact the most <em>newsworthy<\/em> piece of information to me.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would&#8217;ve categorized this as &#8220;News&#8221; but&#8230;really? &#8220;News&#8221;?! I received this email the other day from a local radio station and it was entitled: BREAKING NEWS: JOE WALSH IS SOBER Here&#8217;s a quote from the note: \u201cA whole new world\u2026\u201d That\u2019s what the legendary Joe Walsh told me as he described life as a sober <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-quickie\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[32,619,245,620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}