{"id":20061,"date":"2013-09-20T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20061"},"modified":"2013-09-20T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T13:16:51","slug":"battle-royale-most-relaxed-performance-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-most-relaxed-performance-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: Most Relaxed Performance Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C2ldtuSfm9g?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Has any musician given a more relaxed performance than <strong>Kenny Rogers<\/strong> in this performance of &#8220;Ruby&#8221; with The First Edition? Beside <strong>Perry Como<\/strong>, that is. Has a song&#8217;s punch line ever been delivered with more restraint? Typically quiet instruments like muted guitars, tambourines, and the rhythmic tapping of a hand on an acoustic guitar body overpower Rogers&#8217; laid-back vocal delivery. The song actually benefits from his approach. I lean forward everything he cautions Ruby not to take her love to town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has any musician given a more relaxed performance than Kenny Rogers in this performance of &#8220;Ruby&#8221; with The First Edition? Beside Perry Como, that is. Has a song&#8217;s punch line ever been delivered with more restraint? Typically quiet instruments like muted guitars, tambourines, and the rhythmic tapping of a hand on an acoustic guitar body <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-most-relaxed-performance-ever\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20061"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}