{"id":1403,"date":"2008-04-29T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-25T09:40:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T09:40:17","slug":"rock-gateway-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-gateway-advanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Gateways, Advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQXsuAey-NE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nOkay, here&#8217;s a topic. Can you think of band or artist that was a specific <strong>gateway<\/strong> to your current overall thinking of what rock is? I don&#8217;t mean the first band you fell in love with. I&#8217;m thinking more about the moment you realized that there was more to rock than you initially perceived. What band first hipped you to <i>that<\/i>. By way of example, I&#8217;ll tell you my answer. I think my early exposure to <strong>Talking Heads<\/strong> videos, such as the one above, laid the groundwork for an adult life of cherishing off-kilter lyrical perspectives and nerdy, unconventional frontmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s a topic. Can you think of band or artist that was a specific gateway to your current overall thinking of what rock is? I don&#8217;t mean the first band you fell in love with. I&#8217;m thinking more about the moment you realized that there was more to rock than you initially perceived. What <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-gateway-advanced\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}