{"id":16112,"date":"2012-10-18T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16112"},"modified":"2012-10-18T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:41:31","slug":"happy-birthday-chuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/happy-birthday-chuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Chuck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sDV_GDuJaUQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I keep getting distracted from the desire to wish <strong>Chuck Berry<\/strong>, one of rock&#8217;s few surviving founding fathers, a happy 86th birthday! I know you&#8217;re reading, Chuck, I won&#8217;t give away your RTH handle.<\/p>\n<p>While Chuck browses today&#8217;s content, why don&#8217;t you tell him what <strong>your favorite Chuck Berry song<\/strong> is? I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for &#8220;Almost Grown,&#8221; thanks to its appearance on the <em>American Graffiti<\/em> soundtrack and the change-up to his usual sound it presents.<\/p>\n<p>As for songs Berry wrote but others covered, I&#8217;ll take The Rolling Stones&#8217; version of &#8220;Around and Around.&#8221; The Master could be eclipsed with his own material now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep getting distracted from the desire to wish Chuck Berry, one of rock&#8217;s few surviving founding fathers, a happy 86th birthday! I know you&#8217;re reading, Chuck, I won&#8217;t give away your RTH handle. While Chuck browses today&#8217;s content, why don&#8217;t you tell him what your favorite Chuck Berry song is? I&#8217;ve always had a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/happy-birthday-chuck\/' 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":[737,736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112"}],"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=16112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}