{"id":13614,"date":"2012-05-29T07:48:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T11:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2012-05-29T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T00:28:42","slug":"scavenger-hunt-before-they-were-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/scavenger-hunt-before-they-were-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"Scavenger Hunt: Before They Were Famous"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13615\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13615\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13615\" title=\"556690_2775472766350_1844033401_1670598_209666788_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/556690_2775472766350_1844033401_1670598_209666788_n-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/556690_2775472766350_1844033401_1670598_209666788_n-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/556690_2775472766350_1844033401_1670598_209666788_n.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guess who -- and no, it&#39;s not the Guess Who<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today we initiate a new chapter in the ongoing RTH series &#8220;Scavenger Hunt.&#8221; As you know, the basic idea here is to use the awesome rock-nerd brainpower of the Hall to find images or other relevant media on the Internet that enlighten and entertain, according to the whim of the contest quizmaster, i.e., me. I set the category within which one must search, and today, it&#8217;s that old chestnut: unusually excellent and otherwise noteworthy photos or videos of famous rockers before they were famous. You may either identify the artist you&#8217;ve re-discovered by name, or add to the fun by asking the Hall to chime in with an ID. I&#8217;ll start the proceedings off with the band featured above, which I choose not to identify.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Remember this helpful hint by <strong>tonyola<\/strong>, if you want to post a photo from a site that includes the artist&#8217;s name in the URL:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want to hide the url, download the picture then upload it to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/tinypic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tinypic.com\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we initiate a new chapter in the ongoing RTH series &#8220;Scavenger Hunt.&#8221; As you know, the basic idea here is to use the awesome rock-nerd brainpower of the Hall to find images or other relevant media on the Internet that enlighten and entertain, according to the whim of the contest quizmaster, i.e., me. I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/scavenger-hunt-before-they-were-famous\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}