{"id":15167,"date":"2012-08-23T16:03:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15167"},"modified":"2012-08-23T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T20:04:08","slug":"townspeople-helping-townspeople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/townspeople-helping-townspeople\/","title":{"rendered":"Townspeople Helping Townspeople Cease Feeling Like Idiots About Rock-Related Things They Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X4rC3gP2hXk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>On a <a href=\"http:\/\/wfmu.org\/flashplayer.php?version=2&amp;show=46856&amp;archive=80824\" target=\"_blank\">recent episode of the best show on WFMU, <em>The Best Show on WFMU<\/em><\/a>, host <strong>Tom Scharpling<\/strong> made an aside about all the years he&#8217;s spent feeling like an idiot for not knowing how to pronounce the last word in <strong>The Clash<\/strong> song &#8220;White Man (in Hammersmith Palais).&#8221; I knew exactly where he was coming from. I&#8217;ve loved that song for 33 years, yet despite my pride in knowing just enough French to get myself in trouble by trying to use it when I&#8217;m over there, I&#8217;ve always resisted pronouncing it &#8220;pal-ay.&#8221; It&#8217;s an actual concert hall in London, I presume, so for all I know the Brits butcher the word, as they seem to do with most French words, and comfortably pronounce it &#8220;palace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To avoid sounding pretentious I&#8217;ve always referred to the song, when it comes up in conversation with friends, as &#8220;White Man in Hammersmith Palace\u2014<em>or whatever it&#8217;s called<\/em>.&#8221; Folks, I&#8217;m tired of feeling like an idiot. Can someone assure me of the proper pronunciation?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been hiding your ignorance of some rock-related thing you really should know by now, we&#8217;re offering a judgment-free window to pose your deep-seated point of ignorance and stop feeling like an idiot around your rock-nerd friends once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent episode of the best show on WFMU, The Best Show on WFMU, host Tom Scharpling made an aside about all the years he&#8217;s spent feeling like an idiot for not knowing how to pronounce the last word in The Clash song &#8220;White Man (in Hammersmith Palais).&#8221; I knew exactly where he was <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/townspeople-helping-townspeople\/' 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":[133,706],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167"}],"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=15167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}