{"id":1766,"date":"2008-10-29T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-29T13:32:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T13:32:17","slug":"a-rock-town-hall-apology-or-revisiting-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-rock-town-hall-apology-or-revisiting-d\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 World Series Rate-a-Record (Suspended Play Edition): A Rock Town Hall Apology, or Revisiting Daryl Hall&#8217;s Rendition of the National Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8W5yN9he8k0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nRecently a well-known Townsperson posted a poll question that invited fellow Townspeople to poke fun at <strong>Daryl Hall<\/strong>, of the popular vocal duo <strong>Hall &amp; Oates<\/strong>, for failing to show for his scheduled singing of the National Anthem before Game 5 of the 2008 World Series. His old singing partner, <strong>John Oates<\/strong>, filled in admirably, and some of us thought we were having some fun.<\/p>\n<p>It was then brought to our attention that Mr. Hall was feeling &#8220;under the weather&#8221; owing to a flare up of his <strong>Lyme disease<\/strong> &#8211; no laughing matter &#8211; and that otherwise he would never have missed this great honor in front of his hometown fans on baseball&#8217;s largest stage. It was <em>then<\/em> brought to my attention that this would have been Hall&#8217;s second singing of the National Anthem before a Phillies&#8217; home World Series game. Hall sang before one of the 1993 games, which I sadly missed while living abroad.<\/p>\n<p>As our way of kicking off the final innings of the suspended Game 5 <em>and<\/em> apologizing to Daryl Hall, John Oates, <strong>Oates&#8217; moustache<\/strong>, and the first two (and only) unadorned notes sung by <strong>Pattie LaBelle<\/strong> in her rendition the night before, Rock Town Hall remembers Daryl Hall&#8217;s 1993 redition of <em>our National Anthem[.em&#8230;em&#8230;]<\/em>.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hR7gkRFXrJY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><em>As our way of keeping it real, who better delivered the anthem, Hall or Oates?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a well-known Townsperson posted a poll question that invited fellow Townspeople to poke fun at Daryl Hall, of the popular vocal duo Hall &amp; Oates, for failing to show for his scheduled singing of the National Anthem before Game 5 of the 2008 World Series. His old singing partner, John Oates, filled in admirably, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-rock-town-hall-apology-or-revisiting-d\/' 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\/1766"}],"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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}