{"id":15159,"date":"2012-08-23T16:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15159"},"modified":"2012-08-23T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T20:56:17","slug":"oh-beck-you-hipster-scientologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/oh-beck-you-hipster-scientologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Beck, you hipster Scientologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15173\" title=\"becksheet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/becksheet-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/becksheet-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/becksheet.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like Beck.  I honestly do.  All his weird blips and beeps and forays into sampling, etc.  But I honestly don&#8217;t know what to make of his latest:  a songbook with annotated sheet music that buyers have to make to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this <em>McSweeney&#8217;s<\/em> piece:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/pages\/song-reader\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/pages\/song-reader<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who the hell is going to buy this thing?  Concert-level pianists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Beck. I honestly do. All his weird blips and beeps and forays into sampling, etc. But I honestly don&#8217;t know what to make of his latest: a songbook with annotated sheet music that buyers have to make to listen to. Check out this McSweeney&#8217;s piece: http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/pages\/song-reader Who the hell is going to buy <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/oh-beck-you-hipster-scientologist\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}