{"id":14736,"date":"2012-08-03T01:22:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14736"},"modified":"2012-08-03T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T05:22:21","slug":"cit-ay-and-other-rock-pronunciation-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cit-ay-and-other-rock-pronunciation-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Cit-Ay<\/em> and Other Rock Pronunciation Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/99gNYaz6YaM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I was listening to Stevie Wonder&#8217;s &#8220;Living for the City&#8221; earlier today, while driving from Laguna to San Francisco, primarily through the kind of amazing California nowhere land that I-5 takes drivers. Hearing Stevie repeatedly pronounce the song&#8217;s key word as <em>Cit-Ay<\/em> I got to thinking of that horrible Journey song that pronounces the word the same way, and the possibility for a Last Man Standing. Then I realized there are probably a dozen other words that are only pronounced a certain way in song, a way that no one would ever pronounce the words in everyday speech. Then I realized that you can help budding rock singers identify and learn the proper rock pronunciation of these words. <em>Go<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to Stevie Wonder&#8217;s &#8220;Living for the City&#8221; earlier today, while driving from Laguna to San Francisco, primarily through the kind of amazing California nowhere land that I-5 takes drivers. Hearing Stevie repeatedly pronounce the song&#8217;s key word as Cit-Ay I got to thinking of that horrible Journey song that pronounces the word <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cit-ay-and-other-rock-pronunciation-tips\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}