{"id":1719,"date":"2008-10-01T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T17:37:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-06T06:39:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T06:39:33","slug":"comment-of-the-month-september-winner-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/comment-of-the-month-september-winner-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment of the Month: September Winner Drops Unexpectedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/commentofthemonth425x302.swf\" width=\"425\" height=\"302\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/commentofthemonth425x302.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today marks the awarding of our second monthly <strong>Comment of the Month<\/strong> honors. It&#8217;s funny how the best and brightest comments emerge from our discussions each month. There were plenty of worthy candidates in the &#8220;stretch drive&#8221; over the last week of September, in particular, but our winner culminated from an off-topic discussion that took place within a completely unrelated main thread.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/15\/richard-wright-joins-keyboard-section-of#comments\">reflecting on the death of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright<\/a>, we got to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/15\/richard-wright-joins-keyboard-section-of#c20293\">talking about the Main Stage rotating banner image<\/a> featuring the <em>olde-fashioned<\/em> cotton undies of a young <strong>Linda Rondstadt<\/strong>. <strong>cdm<\/strong> brought it up, but it wasn&#8217;t until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/15\/richard-wright-joins-keyboard-section-of#c20302\">this clarification<\/a> that we could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/15\/richard-wright-joins-keyboard-section-of#c20304\">zone in<\/a> on the specific image he had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/15\/richard-wright-joins-keyboard-section-of#c20305\">tension mounted<\/a> in what was clearly a fierce play for mid-month consideration for these honors. Then a Townsperson stepped forward with what we&#8217;re honoring today as the winning comment!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/townhallrondstadt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"463\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Let&#8217;s get to the bottom of this&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><big><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/15\/richard-wright-joins-keyboard-section-of#c20306\">Our winning comment can be found at the top of the linked page, here!<\/a><\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, <strong>The Great 48<\/strong>, you have posted the Comment of the Month for September 2008!<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/09\/01\/comment-of-the-month-august\">Last month&#8217;s winner!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the awarding of our second monthly Comment of the Month honors. It&#8217;s funny how the best and brightest comments emerge from our discussions each month. There were plenty of worthy candidates in the &#8220;stretch drive&#8221; over the last week of September, in particular, but our winner culminated from an off-topic discussion that took <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/comment-of-the-month-september-winner-dr\/' 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":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719"}],"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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}