{"id":20141,"date":"2013-09-30T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20141"},"modified":"2013-09-30T13:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:22:03","slug":"blue-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/blue-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KAPnSRqgpZE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Between the stunning use of Badfinger&#8217;s &#8220;Baby Blue&#8221; in the conclusion to <em>Breaking Bad<\/em>, the end of a painful baseball season for my team, the most lopsided loss by my football team since 1972, and my first viewing of the above Gap ad, yesterday was certainly a Blue Sunday. At least I&#8217;m not a fan of the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m long past the days of getting outraged by the use of popular music in ads and I&#8217;m rooting as hard as anyone for <strong>Dhani Harrison<\/strong> to finally reach his potential as a reborn <em>Let It Be<\/em>-era George, but can this Gap ad be his last tantalizing stalling move? The &#8220;kid&#8221; is 35. Isn&#8217;t it time he takes a big step forward?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-351\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_351\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blogs\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_351_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"29b0ee920a\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Are you cool with Dhani Harrison playing his father's \"For You Blue\" on a Gap ad?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-351-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1381\" name=\"poll_351\" value=\"1381\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1381\">I would have been more cool with it had he been playing the song to sell Levi's jeans.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1376\" name=\"poll_351\" value=\"1376\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1376\">I would have been more cool with it had he been playing the song to sell Wrangler jeans.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1374\" name=\"poll_351\" value=\"1374\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1374\">Sure, why not?<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1375\" name=\"poll_351\" value=\"1375\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1375\">No, mostly because I am opposed to the use of Beatles songs to promote anything but peace and love and that kind of stuff.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(351);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(351); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-351-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the stunning use of Badfinger&#8217;s &#8220;Baby Blue&#8221; in the conclusion to Breaking Bad, the end of a painful baseball season for my team, the most lopsided loss by my football team since 1972, and my first viewing of the above Gap ad, yesterday was certainly a Blue Sunday. At least I&#8217;m not a fan <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/blue-sunday\/' 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":[335,436,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20141"}],"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=20141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}