{"id":1708,"date":"2008-09-26T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-26T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:50:36","slug":"thank-you-rock-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thank-you-rock-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Rock Town Hall!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HgwXASjTuZg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThank you, Rock Town Hall. Should my life flash before my eyes someday, I&#8217;m not sure that the dim memory of <strong>Sanford Townsend Band&#8217;s &#8220;Smoke From a Distant Fire&#8221;<\/strong> would have been included in that Great Montage Before Meeting My Maker. Until it came up in today&#8217;s <strong>Dugout Chatter<\/strong>, I had not thought about this song since maybe 6 weeks after it fell out of Top 40 rotation, way back when. Hearing it again and finding this especially tasty clip may be the high point of my half-completed day. This speaks volumes about some of my core rock values and perspectives. The members of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/07\/19\/not-cool-but-lemgcooll-emg-nevertheless\">Brinsley Schwarz<\/a><\/strong> would have given Brinsley&#8217;s left nut for this Top 40 hit. Rock Town Hall, once more you have filled in a gap in my memory that no other rock discussion blog could have filled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Rock Town Hall. Should my life flash before my eyes someday, I&#8217;m not sure that the dim memory of Sanford Townsend Band&#8217;s &#8220;Smoke From a Distant Fire&#8221; would have been included in that Great Montage Before Meeting My Maker. Until it came up in today&#8217;s Dugout Chatter, I had not thought about this <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thank-you-rock-town-hall\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"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=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}