{"id":17169,"date":"2013-01-18T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17169"},"modified":"2013-01-18T08:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T13:25:14","slug":"songs-that-are-impervious-to-subpar-performers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-that-are-impervious-to-subpar-performers\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs That Are Impervious to Subpar Performers"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O6atUODsWGs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>We did something on this topic years ago, if memory serves. I hope to dig out the old thread, so we don&#8217;t repeat ourselves, but how about &#8220;Baby, It&#8217;s You&#8221; as an example of a song that, by the strength of its writing and structure, is impervious to subpar performers? As bad as the above 1969 cover by <strong>Smith<\/strong> is (and too bad, because its fringed-headbanded-Dry Looked band members promise so much), it&#8217;s still hard for me not to &#8220;root&#8221; for the song&#8217;s turns, doing my best to overlook the band&#8217;s clunky navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did something on this topic years ago, if memory serves. I hope to dig out the old thread, so we don&#8217;t repeat ourselves, but how about &#8220;Baby, It&#8217;s You&#8221; as an example of a song that, by the strength of its writing and structure, is impervious to subpar performers? As bad as the above <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-that-are-impervious-to-subpar-performers\/' 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":[271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169"}],"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=17169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}