{"id":1756,"date":"2008-10-24T08:37:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T12:37:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-24T08:38:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T08:38:46","slug":"geographical-namechecks-in-songs-that-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/geographical-namechecks-in-songs-that-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographical Namechecks in Songs That Are Meaningful to You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/04ZUWYjNIGM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nSome of us have lived in towns that have been namechecked in songs. Often, the namechecking means little to you or is even annoying. There may be, however, that one song with a geographical namecheck that makes you proud to have had a direct association with it. <em><strong>What song and geographical namecheck has this effect on you?<\/strong><\/em> It doesn&#8217;t have to be your hometown, but it has to be a geographical location that you&#8217;ve spent significant time in. What you might associate in your imagination of some song namechecking a place you&#8217;ve only passed through at best does not count.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to think about a song with a geographical namecheck that might mean something to me. I&#8217;ve spent most of my life in Philadelphia, which has been referenced frequently, but of songs namechecking my hometown only the insignificant and\/or annnoying ones come to mind, like &#8220;Philadelphia Freedom&#8221;. I&#8217;d like to say <strong>&#8220;Expressway to Your Heart&#8221;<\/strong>, which Philadelphians know is a reference to a heavily trafficked expressway that we all dread being stuck on, but the song doesn&#8217;t directly namecheck Philadelphia or the specific expressway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyhistory.org\/blog\/archive\/2007\/10\/18\/the-schuylkill-expressway.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">the Schuylkill<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of us have lived in towns that have been namechecked in songs. Often, the namechecking means little to you or is even annoying. There may be, however, that one song with a geographical namecheck that makes you proud to have had a direct association with it. What song and geographical namecheck has this effect <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/geographical-namechecks-in-songs-that-ar\/' 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\/1756"}],"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=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}