{"id":16215,"date":"2012-10-26T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16215"},"modified":"2012-10-26T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:47:18","slug":"i-declare-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-declare-war\/","title":{"rendered":"I Declare War!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wf5d0x-NtVo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>You know I&#8217;ve got a deep, some might say perverse love for <a title=\"Eric Burdon &amp; War!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-ve-purchased-the-rights-to-the-eric-bu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eric Burdon &amp; War<\/strong><\/a>, but War itself, after Burdon left the band, was even better. Today, in an effort to petition for a <strong>Critical Upgrade<\/strong>, I declare War! In coming weeks there may be more evidence to submit.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the first War (sans Burdon) songs I loved. My baby brother and I used to get a kick out of it. I&#8217;ve always been a sucker for any bass riff along the lines of <strong>Spencer Davis Group<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Gimme Some Lovin&#8217;,&#8221; and this song&#8217;s core riff met that criterion. The overall effect of discovering War at the age of 11 was like seeing <strong>Fat Albert &amp; the Junkyard Band<\/strong> come to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know I&#8217;ve got a deep, some might say perverse love for Eric Burdon &amp; War, but War itself, after Burdon left the band, was even better. Today, in an effort to petition for a Critical Upgrade, I declare War! In coming weeks there may be more evidence to submit. This is one of the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-declare-war\/' 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":[61,741],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215"}],"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=16215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}