{"id":1412,"date":"2008-05-01T22:45:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T02:45:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-05T10:36:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:36:23","slug":"if-you-can-t-say-anything-nice-about-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-you-can-t-say-anything-nice-about-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can\u2019t Say Anything Nice\u2026 About Uriah Heep"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0iuaxvkXv4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I don&#8217;t want to hear nothin&#8217; about how Uriah Heep were the poor man&#8217;s poor man&#8217;s Deep Purple. I don&#8217;t want to hear nothin&#8217; about the swell clothes the band is sporting in this clip. And I don&#8217;t want to hear *nothin&#8217;* about the out-of-control inverse relationship between quality of music and quality of poon on display in this clip. What I *do* want to hear are all the nice things you have to say about this particular performance. Extra credit if you can say something nice about the lyric to this song, &#8220;Wizard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start: what, it&#8217;s okay to pump your fist along to &#8220;What&#8217;s So Funny &#8216;Bout Peace, Love and Understanding,&#8221; but taking the time to show your solidarity with Heep&#8217;s message of universal brotherhood is for losers? These guys were *way* ahead of the Hands Across America curve!<\/p>\n<p>Your turn. And remember, if you can&#8217;t say anything nice, don&#8217;t say anything at all!<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to hear nothin&#8217; about how Uriah Heep were the poor man&#8217;s poor man&#8217;s Deep Purple. I don&#8217;t want to hear nothin&#8217; about the swell clothes the band is sporting in this clip. And I don&#8217;t want to hear *nothin&#8217;* about the out-of-control inverse relationship between quality of music and quality of poon <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-you-can-t-say-anything-nice-about-uri\/' 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":[346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}