{"id":19113,"date":"2013-07-03T07:53:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T11:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19113"},"modified":"2013-07-03T08:40:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T12:40:32","slug":"2013-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/2013-summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19133\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/RockReading.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19133\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19133 \" alt=\"Rock reading.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/RockReading-300x196.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/RockReading-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/RockReading.png 447w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock reading.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hopefully, it&#8217;s rapidly approaching that time of the year when you will be able to sit down with a glass of something cool and refreshing, and open up a good book.<\/p>\n<p>You may not choose Simon Reynold&#8217;s <em>Retromania<\/em>, but last week&#8217;s <em>NY Times Summer Reading Book Review<\/em> contained synopses of three possible contenders. Do any of these appeal to you?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Stone Roses, War and Peace<\/em>. By Simon Spence.\u00a0Read the cautionary tale of the number one contender for the &#8220;Band Who Blew It&#8221;!<\/li>\n<li><em>I Would Die 4 U, Why Prince Became an Icon<\/em>. By Toure.\u00a0Based on a series of lectures presented at Harvard, including &#8220;Prince&#8217;s Rosebud.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>Yes Is The Answer And Other Prog Rock Tales<\/em><strong><em>.<\/em> <\/strong>Edited by Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell.\u00a0A series of recollections by people in the know. Rick Moody shares that Carl Palmer &#8220;dabbled in funk,&#8221; and other interesting bits and pieces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>What will you be reading this summer? Any recommendations for fellow rockophiles?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, it&#8217;s rapidly approaching that time of the year when you will be able to sit down with a glass of something cool and refreshing, and open up a good book. You may not choose Simon Reynold&#8217;s Retromania, but last week&#8217;s NY Times Summer Reading Book Review contained synopses of three possible contenders. Do any <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/2013-summer-reading\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[167,823],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19113"}],"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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}