{"id":13482,"date":"2012-05-14T23:38:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T03:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13482"},"modified":"2012-05-14T23:38:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T03:38:22","slug":"school-house-rock-precedents-antecedents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/school-house-rock-precedents-antecedents\/","title":{"rendered":"School House Rock: Precedents &amp; Antecedents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a pretty big fan of <strong>Bill Withers<\/strong>.  <em>Live At Carnegie Hall<\/em> belongs on any Top 10 list of albums.<\/p>\n<p>I ran across this quote in the September 2011 issue of the UK magazine <em>The Word<\/em>.  Regarding Withers, <strong>David Hepworth<\/strong> writes \u201cWithers is an exceptional artist.  No obvious influences and no musical descendants either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I read that line and immediately thought it outrageous but then couldn\u2019t come up with any obvious influence or any musical descendants either.<\/p>\n<p>Can you?<\/p>\n<p>Or can you think of another artist who meets those criteria?<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g3hBYTkI-sE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a pretty big fan of Bill Withers. Live At Carnegie Hall belongs on any Top 10 list of albums. I ran across this quote in the September 2011 issue of the UK magazine The Word. Regarding Withers, David Hepworth writes \u201cWithers is an exceptional artist. No obvious influences and no musical descendants either.\u201d I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/school-house-rock-precedents-antecedents\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[634,635],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}