{"id":17401,"date":"2013-02-06T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17401"},"modified":"2013-02-06T00:37:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T05:37:36","slug":"i-summon-hvb-can-we-agree-on-a-contemporary-pop-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-summon-hvb-can-we-agree-on-a-contemporary-pop-song\/","title":{"rendered":"I SUMMON HVB: Can We Agree on a Contemporary Pop Song?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KReoTOZK9W8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Don&#8217;t bail on me, HVB. I&#8217;m used to you not answering direct questions in our occasional offlist conversations, but this question cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled across this <strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong> song while flipping stations in the car last night. It quickly caught my ear with its vaguely &#8220;Be Thankful For What You Got&#8221;\u00a0vibe and odd (fake?) <strong>Earth Wind &amp; Fire<\/strong>-style horns. I stuck with it. I even made it through the\u2014SPOILER ALERT\u2014rap break. And is that sampled swirling strings from the intro to\u00a0<strong>Harold Melvin &amp; the Blue Notes<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;Wake Up Everybody&#8221; I hear at this song&#8217;s conclusion? Talk about a way to your Moderator&#8217;s heart!<\/p>\n<p>Check this song out (don&#8217;t worry about actually watching the video). Can we agree on a contemporary pop song?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t bail on me, HVB. I&#8217;m used to you not answering direct questions in our occasional offlist conversations, but this question cannot be ignored. I stumbled across this Justin Timberlake song while flipping stations in the car last night. It quickly caught my ear with its vaguely &#8220;Be Thankful For What You Got&#8221;\u00a0vibe and odd <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-summon-hvb-can-we-agree-on-a-contemporary-pop-song\/' 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":[46,269,47,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401"}],"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=17401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}