{"id":20216,"date":"2013-10-09T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20216"},"modified":"2013-10-09T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:17:02","slug":"not-the-way-i-intended-to-connect-with-one-of-my-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/not-the-way-i-intended-to-connect-with-one-of-my-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Way I Intended to Connect With One of My Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was notified that Andy Partridge of XTC, one of my rock heroes, took umbrage to this 2009 Rock Town Hall &#8220;news&#8221; item:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dukes Demos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/andy-partridge-retroactively-recording\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/andy-partridge-retroactively-recording\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Partridge posted his dismay with my throwaway lark on his Twitter feed. For possibly the first time ever I used my Twitter account to respond to something. I don&#8217;t like seeing us called an &#8220;arse site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20217\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/xtctwitter.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20217\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-20217  \" alt=\"Not the way I ever intended to interact with one of my musical heroes.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/xtctwitter.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/xtctwitter.jpg 532w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/xtctwitter-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not the way I ever intended to interact with one of my musical heroes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sorry, Andy. Not a word of that post was true. My apologies to you and to any fans who went hunting for the release of those fictional fictional demos. My comments in that post on my love for your music, even the &#8220;tough love&#8221; I give to some of your works, are still completely true and sincere to how I feel. If I could I&#8217;d show you what&#8217;s stirred in my heart through the years while listening to your music. Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was notified that Andy Partridge of XTC, one of my rock heroes, took umbrage to this 2009 Rock Town Hall &#8220;news&#8221; item: http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/andy-partridge-retroactively-recording\/ Partridge posted his dismay with my throwaway lark on his Twitter feed. For possibly the first time ever I used my Twitter account to respond to something. I don&#8217;t like seeing <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/not-the-way-i-intended-to-connect-with-one-of-my-heroes\/' 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":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216"}],"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=20216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}