{"id":18278,"date":"2013-04-09T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18278"},"modified":"2013-04-10T06:44:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:44:19","slug":"unwelcome-second-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/unwelcome-second-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwelcome Second Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the crap that gets released every week, I should be beyond being shocked, but it floors me that <strong>Big Country<\/strong> is back with a new studio album. If <strong>Queen<\/strong> and <strong>INXS<\/strong> can do it &#8212; why not trot out good old Mike Peters from <strong>The Alarm<\/strong>, cut some songs, and hit the road as &#8220;Big Country.&#8221; Never mind that the face and voice of the band hanged himself 12 years ago!<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GLKggMPs9Uw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>And then there&#8217;s this &#8212; a <strong>Molly Ringwald<\/strong> album. Didn&#8217;t you know that acting was just a distraction for her and it&#8217;s time for get &#8220;back to the music.&#8221; Of course you did.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ToPgCfaIuz0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><em>What strange albums have you come across lately<\/em>?<strong> <\/strong><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the crap that gets released every week, I should be beyond being shocked, but it floors me that Big Country is back with a new studio album. If Queen and INXS can do it &#8212; why not trot out good old Mike Peters from The Alarm, cut some songs, and hit the road <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/unwelcome-second-acts\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1413,"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\/18278"}],"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\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}