{"id":19837,"date":"2013-08-24T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19837"},"modified":"2013-08-27T11:50:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T15:50:20","slug":"replacements-fever-catch-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/replacements-fever-catch-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacements Fever &#8212; Catch It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7iGS8on6Cxw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Replacements play their first &#8220;reunion&#8221; gig in Toronto at Riot Fest this weekend &#8212; and it&#8217;s creating quite a stir, back in the Twin Cities at least. They close the show Sunday, right after Iggy and the Stooges. There will be lots of press coverage in the Twin Cities media as Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson strap it up &#8212; no Chris Mars, though, and Slim Dunlap has big health issues.<\/p>\n<p>So to prepare: There&#8217;s this nice &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/publicradio2.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/files\/2013\/08\/infographic-V06.png\" href=\"http:\/\/publicradio2.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/files\/2013\/08\/infographic-V06.png\">Meet the Replacements Family&#8221; chart<\/a> that a local station cooked up.<\/p>\n<p>How about <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/i\/2XuPj\">this rendering of the Let It Be cove<\/a>r (shot on the Stinson&#8217;s roof) recreated in Legos? Nice!<\/p>\n<p>Wish I could be there &#8212; but it&#8217;s a good thing I&#8217;m not going &#8212; I have the mother of all summer colds and am just getting it back together after a week of laying low.<\/p>\n<p>From where I&#8217;m coming from this is an event show &#8212; where I would consider traveling to make it.\u00a0<em><strong>What say you? &#8212; in the spirit of an earlier post &#8212; is this a &#8216;why bother&#8217; event or a real event?<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Replacements play their first &#8220;reunion&#8221; gig in Toronto at Riot Fest this weekend &#8212; and it&#8217;s creating quite a stir, back in the Twin Cities at least. They close the show Sunday, right after Iggy and the Stooges. There will be lots of press coverage in the Twin Cities media as Paul Westerberg and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/replacements-fever-catch-it\/' 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":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837"}],"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=19837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}