{"id":19188,"date":"2013-06-16T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19188"},"modified":"2013-06-17T09:33:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T13:33:04","slug":"thrifty-music-in-tribute-to-the-father-of-rth-and-his-challenges-dancing-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-in-tribute-to-the-father-of-rth-and-his-challenges-dancing-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrifty Music:  in Tribute to the Father of RTH and His Challenges Dancing in Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TheFlaresFootStompin.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nGreetings, fellow seekers of the rare, the unusual, and the putatively worthless. On this Father&#8217;s Day, I come before you in humble tribute to the father of RTH, our very own Mr. Moderator, whose singular accomplishment in the field of Rock community I shall celebrate through a choice slab of dusty vinyl.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, today I share a track that will hopefully nurse him through his legendary fear of dancing in public spaces. The Flares recorded a song for just this problem in 1961 entitled &#8220;Foot Stompin&#8217;, Part 1.&#8221; Though it climbed to number 25 in the charts that year, I heard it for the first time when combing through a haul of 45s I found at a local flea market. It&#8217;s infectious, foot stompin&#8217; good fun, and it makes dancing easy!<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s to you, Moddie \u2014 long may you stomp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/01-Foot-Stomping-Part-1.mp3\">http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/01-Foot-Stomping-Part-1.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, fellow seekers of the rare, the unusual, and the putatively worthless. On this Father&#8217;s Day, I come before you in humble tribute to the father of RTH, our very own Mr. Moderator, whose singular accomplishment in the field of Rock community I shall celebrate through a choice slab of dusty vinyl. Specifically, today I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-in-tribute-to-the-father-of-rth-and-his-challenges-dancing-in-public\/' 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":[178,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188"}],"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=19188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}