{"id":2016,"date":"2009-02-19T12:05:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-19T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:05:06","slug":"from-nebraska-to-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/from-nebraska-to-wonderland\/","title":{"rendered":"From Nebraska to Wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/townhallzootbutts.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"356\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Remember Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s <em>Nebraska<\/em>, his first stripped-down, hard-hitting attempt at getting away from the numbers? I know some of you own this album. It never did anything for me, but I&#8217;m using it to set up what I hope will be a discussion in which we share the outer ranges of our listening moods, from whatever you consider your most <strong>stark, bare-bones album<\/strong> to the album that suits your <strong>richest, frothiest listening needs<\/strong>. Please don&#8217;t bother with all the albums in between. Be a man (or woman) and <strong>choose one album<\/strong> from each end of your emotional spectrum: what do you most want to listen to when you need to spend some time in your personal Nebraska, and what do you most want to listen to when you need to run free through your own personal <strong>Wonderland<\/strong> &#8211; you know, maybe fill up the tub with bubblebath and pour yourself a glass of champagne! You dig?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s Nebraska, his first stripped-down, hard-hitting attempt at getting away from the numbers? I know some of you own this album. It never did anything for me, but I&#8217;m using it to set up what I hope will be a discussion in which we share the outer ranges of our listening moods, from <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/from-nebraska-to-wonderland\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"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=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}