{"id":1885,"date":"2008-12-19T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-19T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T12:27:13","slug":"a-wonderful-christmas-life-story-of-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-wonderful-christmas-life-story-of-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wonderful Christmas Life Story&#8230; OF ROCK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HBKiDi8lnCk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>So my business partner has a somewhat bookish uncle who, when asked what he might like for Christmas, replied:  &#8220;I dunno&#8230; has there been any good music since the sixties?&#8221;  My business partner has decided he&#8217;s going to take on the holiday challenge of educating his beloved uncle, over the span of <em>one<\/em> 20-track CD, on the crucial high points of rock and roll, <strong>from 1970 until today<\/strong>. Naturally, this wacky challenge made me think of all my nerdy friends at RTH &#8212; and so it is that I turn to you for guidance on his behalf.  Here are the ground rules:<\/p>\n<p>1.  We&#8217;ve got <em>20 tracks<\/em> to fill.  <\/p>\n<p>2.  Each decade has to be represented by at least <em>three<\/em> tracks.  <\/p>\n<p>3.  No single band gets more than <em>two<\/em> tracks (sorry, 2000Man!)<\/p>\n<p>4.  Nominate <em>one track at a time<\/em>, then wait for a &#8220;second&#8221; on your motion.  Seconded nominations will move to the official track list, but may be bumped by a veto of more than three specific counter-votes.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my business partner has a somewhat bookish uncle who, when asked what he might like for Christmas, replied: &#8220;I dunno&#8230; has there been any good music since the sixties?&#8221; My business partner has decided he&#8217;s going to take on the holiday challenge of educating his beloved uncle, over the span of one 20-track CD, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-wonderful-christmas-life-story-of-rock\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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\/1885"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}